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  1. The importance of the liberal arts in transforming lives (essay)

    I firmly believe liberal education is the best preparation a young person can have for the job market and a rewarding, meaningful life as a citizen of our democracy. ... wrote in a famous essay on education titled "The Great Conversation" that the aim of liberal education is human excellence both private and public -- meaning excellence as ...

  2. What is Liberal Education?

    Jacques Barzun. "Why We Educate the Way We Do". Jacques Barzun (1907-2012), one of the founders of the American Academy for Liberal Education, is recognized internationally as one of the most thoughtful commentators on the cultural history of the modern period. After receiving his PhD from Columbia University (NY) in 1932, Barzun was ...

  3. Liberal Education, Then and Now

    The liberal education that deserves public support in a liberal democracy represents a democratization of Socratic education insofar as it is made widely available. But it also preserves an aristocratic root, remaining dependent to a high degree on virtue, or the qualities of mind and character that teachers and students bring to it.

  4. What Is Liberal Education?

    What Is Liberal Education? Liberal education is an approach to undergraduate education that promotes integration of learning across the curriculum and cocurriculum, and between academic and experiential learning, in order to develop specific learning outcomes that are essential for work, citizenship, and life.

  5. Why Liberal Education Matters

    But science and math education reform begins with the reform of liberal education, of which it is a part. Liberal education supposes that while individual rights are shared equally by all, the responsible exercise of those rights is an achievement that depends on cultivating the mind. Reading, writing and arithmetic are the basics that free ...

  6. Liberal education

    A liberal education is associated with the acquisition of knowledge which is theoretical rather than practical, reflective rather than instrumental, and valued for its own sake rather than acquired for some use. It is often understood today to be synonymous with a general education or academic education, inasmuch as these terms, too, are used ...

  7. A return to understanding: Making liberal education valuable again

    Critical literature on liberal education since the 1990s discerns two main trends which pose a serious threat to liberal education in the contemporary world. These are, firstly, the trend of liberal arts colleges offering a more professional curriculum and, secondly, the trend among universities and colleges in general to promote values which ...

  8. The meaning of liberal education

    Purpose. The purpose of this essay is to comment on the philosophy of liberal education and its structure; the goal of general education and how it fulfills the goals of liberal education; and the four key elements of liberal education, including the "liberating" aspects of general education, the need for an emphasis on questions more than on answers, the meaning of a global perspective ...

  9. The Value of the Liberal Arts

    Intellectual and practical skills at the heart of the liberal arts are reading comprehension, inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, written and oral communication, information and quantitative literacy, teamwork and problem-solving. Values that are central to liberal education are personal and social responsibility, civic ...

  10. Liberal education

    A liberal education is a system or course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free (Latin: liber) human being.It is based on the medieval concept of the liberal arts or, more commonly now, the liberalism of the Age of Enlightenment. It has been described as "a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge and transferable skills, and a stronger sense of ...

  11. What Do We Mean by Liberal Education?

    Drawing upon an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Pelikan offers up a distinction between "tradition" and "insight," and then goes on to show how unsustainable that distinction actually is: ... The chief public benefit of liberal education is the formation of a particular kind of person, and thus a particular kind of citizen, who embodies ...

  12. The Meaning of Liberal Education

    In this essay, I will comment on (i) the philosophy of liberal education and its structure; ... A Liberal Education. A liberal education fosters the ability to distinguish between what is true and what is false, with a number of different analytical perspectives: the scientific, the artistic, the humanistic, the quantitative, and the ...

  13. Essay on Liberal Education

    250 Words Essay on Liberal Education Introduction. Liberal education, a holistic approach to learning, has been the bedrock of higher education, aiming to foster intellectual and personal growth. It is a system designed to cultivate an individual's potential beyond the confines of a single discipline.

  14. The value of a liberal education: An essay on the power of knowing

    A liberal education is of value precisely because it is aimed at the development of those qualities of truly human activity which characterize man at his best. We may have to accept something less than this due to human frailty, but we need not be content to aim at anything less. ... Wilbur, J.B. The value of a liberal education: An essay on ...

  15. Essays on a Liberal Education

    On the history of classical education / by C.S. Parker -- The theory of classical education / by H. Sidgwick -- Liberal education in universities / by J. Seeley -- On teaching by means of grammar / by E.E. Bowen -- On Greek and Latin verse-composition as a general branch of education / by F.W. Farrar -- On teaching natural science in schools / by J.M. Wilson -- The teaching of English / by J.W ...

  16. Essays on a liberal education.

    Essays on a liberal education. Author: Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903: Note: Macmillan & co., 1868 : Link: page images at HathiTrust: No stable link: This is an uncurated book entry from our extended bookshelves, readable online now but without a stable link here.

  17. Why Liberal Education in a Capitalist Society?

    Liberal education has as its end the free mind, and the free mind must be its own teacher. ... present state of curiosity about liberal education and begin to devise ways to resolve the conflict with specialized education. This essay was the address to a conference in Amsterdam on the Liberal Arts and Sciences Education and Core Texts in the ...

  18. Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life

    Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life. Title page from Joseph Priestley 's Essay on Education. Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life (1765) is an educational treatise by the 18th-century British polymath Joseph Priestley. [1]

  19. Liberal Education Essay

    Liberal education in the 21st century is learning that uses the approach of empowering individuals so that they can be able to deal with complexity, diversity and change. It gives students a much broader knowledge of the wider world and at the same time and as well get an in-depth, focused study in an area of interest.

  20. Essays on a liberal education : Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903

    On the history of classical education - C.S. Parker; The theory of classical education - H. Sidgwick; Liberal education in universities - J. Seeley; On teaching by means of grammar - E.E. Bowen; On Greek and Latin verse-composition as a general branch of education - F.W. Farrar; On teaching natural science in schools - J.M. Wilson; The teaching of English - J.W.H. Hales; On the education of ...

  21. Essays on a liberal education

    Digitized by Google. On the history of classical education, by C.S. Parker.--The theory of classical education, by H. Sidgwick.--Liberal education in universities, by J. Seeley.--On teaching by means of grammar, by E.E. Bowen.--On Greek and Latin verse-composition as a general branch of education, by F.W. Farrar.--On teaching natural science in schools, by J.M. Wilson.--The teaching of English ...

  22. The Meaning of a Liberal Education

    The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1909) by Woodrow Wilson. sister projects: Wikidata item. An Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association. January 9, 1909. Published in High School Teachers Association of New York, Volume 3, 1908-1909, pp.19-31 and Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 18 :593-606.

  23. Essays on a liberal education.

    Essays on a liberal education. --by Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903. Publication date 1868 Topics Classical education, Education, Humanistic Publisher London : Macmillan Collection oiseut; toronto Contributor OISE - University of Toronto Language English. 24 Addeddate 2008-04-10 18:18:59

  24. Essay: Liberal Education

    Sample Essay. Words 1,210. Liberal education is "a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge and transferable skills, and a strong sense of values, ethics, and civic engagement. [It is] characterized by challenging encounters with important issues, and more a way of studying than specific content." ...

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    In April, Republicans planned to vote on a series of more specific bills: the Liberty in Laundry Act, the Refrigerator Freedom Act and more. These votes were delayed but may still happen. If all ...

  26. The liberal international order is slowly coming apart

    The World Trade Organisation turns 30 next year, but will have spent more than five years in stasis, owing to American neglect. The IMF is gripped by an identity crisis, caught between a green ...

  27. Reflections on new docuseries 'Black Twitter: A People's History'

    A new docuseries on Hulu, "Black Twitter: A People's History," traces the path that the free jazz ensemble that is Black Twitter took in becoming an arbiter of cultural shifts time and again ...