Liberal arts education does not exclude majors, and for those who plan to teach in high school, such majors will be important.
Of course
liberal arts education did not disappear from either universities or community colleges.
Not exact matches
If modern
liberal education is to provide for the nurture of free men, it must regain the ideal of generality which characterized the traditional
liberal arts, but it must
do so without sacrificing the variety and scope made possible by modern advances in knowledge.
The problem with a
liberal arts education is that you learn enough just to finally understand just how much you don't know about many things.
Despite my appreciation for
liberal arts education, I
do not favor making it a part of all
education beyond high school.
There is no need to deny that the
liberal arts may have these uses — I believe they
do — but such uses
do not define, as Prof. Leithart asserts, an authentic Christian
education.
A
liberal arts education is good, but it doesn't necessarily transform into a high salary.»
While the Committee of Ten
did suggest different programs of study for high schools (for example, programs specializing in classical languages, science and mathematics, or modern languages) and introduced the concept of electives to American high schools, its guiding principle was that all students should receive the same high - quality
liberal arts education.
Colleges and universities must both prepare students to succeed in a competitive job market and provide the
liberal arts foundation necessary for lifelong learning, said the participants in the series, «Preparing for a Good Future: What Kind of
Education Do We Want After High School?»
[xvi] And don't forget that research universities — and
liberal arts colleges with significant research expectations for their faculty — are a modest part of all of U.S. higher
education.
In You Can
Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a «Useless»
Liberal Arts Education, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author George Anders reveals that liberal arts majors are overtaking jobs once reserved for graduates with computer science and business d
Liberal Arts Education, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author George Anders reveals that liberal arts majors are overtaking jobs once reserved for graduates with computer science and business degr
Arts Education, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author George Anders reveals that
liberal arts majors are overtaking jobs once reserved for graduates with computer science and business d
liberal arts majors are overtaking jobs once reserved for graduates with computer science and business degr
arts majors are overtaking jobs once reserved for graduates with computer science and business degrees.
The big argument for pursuing
liberal arts degrees and taking general
education courses is that by
doing so, you will learn how to learn.
Higher
education does not necessarily mean university
education &
liberal arts or accounting / computer science courses.
I place more stock in a strong
liberal arts education that
does not neglect business and the hard sciences.
Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive
education movement, it placed the
arts at the center of
liberal arts education and believed that in
doing so it could better educate citizens for participation in a democratic society.
I became aware of this lack of a scientific and technical
education early on after he made some incoherent technical comments but apparently many here still
do not know his
liberal arts / marketing background.
Now, of course, having a
liberal arts background, such as an
education in law,
does not guarantee success, it
does provide valuable skills.
Just because the
liberal arts education was a default goal to the bourgeois of the last three centuries
does not mean that route will work for you, right now.