A University Education Provides Professional, Spiritual and Social skills

In William Cronon’s essay “Only Connect… The Goals of a Liberal Arts Education,” he mentions the qualities or values that a student who was immersed in the foundation of a liberal arts education should have gained. These qualities range from the ability to comprehend what one is reading to more advanced ideas such as one’s ability to ‘nurture and empower people around them’. Cronon doesn’t explicitly say that one only gains these skills through a liberal education, but he does hint that these skills do set liberally educated pupils apart. Right before he lists the qualities he asks the question “How does one recognize liberally educated people?” (Cronon 4). Hinting towards the idea that these skills distinguish such people from those who did not receive such schooling. Although I do agree with the concept that a liberal arts education provides a route for gaining such qualities, I cannot accept the notion that a liberal arts education is the only way one can gain these important life skills because many people are born with these qualities or learn them in multiple different way that are not related to a college degree.

A liberal arts education in the 21st century is basically referring to college studies that provides general knowledge and helps to develop intellectual ability. Liberal arts education is the type of education to prepare one for many fields in today's workplace. As Jamila Lyiscott stated in the video having a great education is important. Lyiscott stated to have a great education is to be able to be articulate when communicating with people. While obtaining a great education provides people to set their goals in life, no matter if it is short or long term goals. Everybody, not just college students, should plan their life out through short and long term goals.

William Cronon in his article, “Only Connect . . .” defines liberal education as “not something any of us ever achieve; it is not a state. Rather, it is a way of living in the face of our own ignorance, a way of groping toward wisdom in full recognition of our folly, a way of educating ourselves without any illusion that our educations will ever be complete” (5). Being liberally education means you are open to learn and knowing that is there no limit to how much you can learn. Personally I think this is a very important topic especially to me because I am the first in my family to go away to a university. I value education and it is a true privilege for me to attend Belmont University. Thus far, I consider myself to almost fully liberally

Before reading the Andrew Delbanco book, College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be, my view of Liberal Arts education was positive. A Liberal Arts education consists of a curriculum based in the sciences and humanities while maintaining the freedom to pursue interdisciplinary study. Studying at a university with such a curriculum and freedom can be compared to an all-you-can-eat buffet; the student attending would not need to commit to a single area of study, trapped in confined course-load in one building on campus. Rather, that person could dish a little bit of business, with a side of art history, and a healthy helping of biology onto their academic tray and consume to their heart’s content, scraping the sides of the university in order to

In 1852 when John Henry Newman wrote his essay, “The Idea of a University,” he wanted to convey that a University’s purpose was to be able to educate first-rate members of the social order. Newman’s theory, although over a hundred years old, still applies to today’s college students; many are seeking higher educations to not only lead to successful careers, but to also become an improved person in society.

Throughout Ungar’s essay, he talks about the cost of liberal arts education, not necessary the financial part of a liberal arts education, but the cost of not having a liberal arts education and how you won’t be best prepared for the changing job market and how that can negatively effect the individual. Ungar talks in essay about the misperceptions of liberal arts education, he talks about how career education is important, but also how jobs and technology are changing and the jobs that might be in demand know, might change or become obsolete. Liberal arts college isn’t something that is deemed necessary for low income and first generation students but Ungar believes that with a liberal arts education, those students can achieve success and move ahead quickly helping ‘shape civil discourse’. Ungar believes that cost of education is out of control and although it’s a problem, the cost of going to a small liberal arts education will be worth it

It may come as no surprise to some that a quality education has the power to provide, for those who seek it, the opportunity of personal and professional transformation. It can be said that a society which encourages higher education is more likely to yield a population of individuals who are civic minded and purposeful as opposed to a society which does not. In an article entitled “What Can College Mean? – Lessons from the Bard Prison Institute, author Ellen Condiffe Lagemann supports the importance of a liberal arts education but also presents the case that quality education in the United States is not available to all.

A Liberal Arts education has helped people to lead a life of great circumstances. The message established in “The New Liberal Arts” by Sanford J. Ungar is clear. Throughout the article it talks about the misperceptions of going to a liberal arts school and how it affects the outcome of ones future. Throughout the passage Ungar states misperceptions of a liberal arts education and then after he gives his response on why he disagrees. When addressing “The New Liberal Arts” I agree with Ungar when he states the misperceptions throughout the article. The misperceptions are what society has developed about people who graduated from Liberal

Education is a process where one learns and apply the same learned information to a practical situation. Isaac Newton, a physicist and a mathematician, managed to discover the indescribable universe we now know, because of what we call liberal education. He did not study physics only but he learned other subjects including mathematics. He understood the basis needed to discover now called the imaginary world, universe. Moreover, author Sanford J. Ungar also portrayed the same idea about the importance of liberal education. He pointed it as a way to create capable and cultivated human beings. Liberal arts broaden the way humans think, such that we not only focus on one skill to tackle a problem but to look at range of skills. Additionally, the author also answered the wired misconceptions that are already in peoples’ minds by proving them wrong.

Broadly speaking, a liberal arts education is concerned with the pursuit of knowledge as an end in itself, rather than for the sake of acquiring skills targeted at a career. The liberal arts philosophy is traced to the Greek philosopher Socrates, who famously proclaimed that the “unexamined life is not worth living”. To that end, traditional liberal arts education emphasizes the scholarly, the gentlemanly and the liberating. However, contemporary liberal arts education is marked by the integration of liberal and practical education. Consequently, a Christian liberal arts education should provide knowledge and intellectual skills to help students become functional and capable of

Martin Luther King Junior said, “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” Higher education does not exist for the sole purpose of preparing students for future jobs; it’s there in order to prepare individuals for life where they are expected to participate in their community, their government, and the lives of those around them. Liberal arts, in particular, exist for the broadening of students’ minds in order for them to be successful not only in their chosen career but also in their lives outside of it. Liberal arts lost their past popularity during the last few decades, but they shouldn’t be disregarded in favor of technical and professional degrees because they still provide students with skills that are perhaps less tangible, but no less necessary for life in modern world.

The liberal arts tradition was born in the philosophy of ancient Greece. It originates in response to certain questions born from human nature, and queried by the unique philosophy born in Grecian culture: What is “being?” What is “wisdom?” What is “virtue?” What is “good?” This pioneering search for truth accessible to reason about the whole world led necessarily to the search for truth about the place of humanity within this world. This unprecedented venture of the human mind, today associated above all with the likes of Epicurus, Socrates, Euclid, and Aristotle, gave rise to a structured and formulaic body of reflection. After Greek philosophy had fully flowered in the fourth century B.C.E., scholars, teachers, and teachers sought to establish a curriculum to prepare students for higher and more hard and strenuous studies. From these efforts came what was called the enkyklios paideia, the learning circle, from which we get our word encyclopedia (Encyclopedia).

Why do people go to college? Why do people get educated? The well-known figure of Catholicism in the 19th century, John Henry Newman gives us an answer. Newman “sees tremendous value in education that exists solely for the sake of imparting knowledge and fostering inquiry. This kind of knowledge, for Newman, lies at the heart of a university”(Newman 32). Newman considers this kind of education as liberal. Furthermore, Newman claims that college education should be detached from practical purposes, and it should cover “branches of knowledge” (Newman 31). In another words, Newman insists that universities should adopt

Higher education is optional, but to enter a respectable career, one must continue their education in order to achieve his financial and/or personal goals. Teenagers who attend college use their extended schooling to further obtain knowledge. The primary objective of higher education is to enhance one’s abilities for his future. A student can learn from school in numerous ways, but liberal education is not a way to attract students into further and higher education. However, students can learn a lot more through experiences that have affected their personal lives. I agree with author Mike Rose’s theory that education needs are reached to obtain a higher academic level by teaching students information that can be related to their personal