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    A liberal arts education is based on the idea of learning how to think and have morals. The Oxford dictionary defines “think” as “Direct one’s mind towards someone or something; use one’s mind actively to form connected ideas”. To be able to think one must be attentive. A liberal arts education is teaching one to have the knowledge and apply it to the correct end. To be able to apply it to an everyday situation. Back in the 1950’s, Racial segregation, prejudice, and discrimination was an everyday

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    alleged intellectual and personal benefits of a liberal arts-based college education substantially outweigh the overarching societal stigma that such a degree is obsolete and the financial burden of the extensive student loan debts that many families may incur as a result of this type of education. For these families and their minds spinning with unanswered questions, Fareed Zakaria takes the complicated matter and confronts it head-on, arguing that a liberal arts-educated population is a necessity for

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    My Liberal Arts Education People describe liberal education as an approach to learn that empowers individuals and prepare them to deal with complexity, diversity and change. I believe that liberal arts education provides students with broad information and enabling them to expand knowledge and advance society in a positive way. In this essay, I am going to write about my thoughts of the liberal arts education, and how it will affect my life. First of all, those classes prepare me to

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    LIBERAL ARTS BREADTH AND MY EDUCATION 3 Liberal Arts Breadth and My Education There are many benefits to getting a Liberal Arts degree in today’s economic market. It is a message to your employer that you are willing to take on new information, and learn more then what is necessary to succeed. It shows initiative and the ability to expand your horizons beyond yourself. In a Liberal Arts education there is more purpose then just learning the career field of choice. It is a program that teaches critical

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    Education is an important thing in the modern life to all individuals in this society. It is a great tool to help people to be succeed. However, today’s students don’t care of education. Mark Edmundson’s essay, On the Uses of a Liberal education, and Neil Postman’s essay, Television as Teacher, explain the problem of education system. They all said that students for today are thinking education should be entertaining. “They’re playing the informed consumer, letting the provider know where he's

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    College of Arts and Science appeals to inquisitive students who share this mindset, students who want to know not just about Einstein’s theory of relativity, but also Shakespeare's masterpieces and Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. A liberal arts education will not only be an asset to me

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    For centuries, a liberal arts education was a sign of a well-rounded, creative individual. However, in an ever changing era, a liberal arts education is nothing more than an example of how little people enjoy change. Nowadays, numerous jobs require basic to intermediate computer skills, literacy in basic business and economic concepts, and a remedial understanding of geography, social customs, and current events. The core curriculum of a liberal arts education, which includes history, math, art,

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    actualities regardless of who takes a gander at them. Be that as it may, it additionally acquaints understudies with the joys of verbal confrontation and the regularly growing universe of thoughts. In this essay we will discuss the importance of liberal education. It opens entryways, empowering the brain to go wherever it needs in the quest for learning and comprehension. It twists toward receptiveness rather than control. In the midst of awesome division, the ability to see others' perspectives

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    Published in Harper's Magazine’s September 1997 issue, Mark Edmundson’s essay, “On the Uses of Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students,” presents a very personal argument for an apparent crisis in liberal education–the lack of passion in students. According to Edmundson, a professor at the University of Virginia, “liberal-arts education is as ineffective as it is now…[because] university culture, like American culture writ large, is, to put it crudely, ever more devoted

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    Abrahamyan Synthesis Essay Excellence: How do the goals of a liberal arts education lend themselves to achieving academic integrity? Liberal arts education shapes an individual who has necessary characteristics for reaching academic integrity. Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest and responsible manner (definition of academic integrity according to Pennsylvania State University). Liberal arts education gives confidence, so you do not need to cheat or plagiarize

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