Sentences with phrase «contemporary liberal education»

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I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

While this is the true essence of «education» often emphasized by educationists, in the present dominance of neo liberal model of development there is a growing realization at all levels that the existing models have failed and that there is a total dearth of relevance between the human being and the complex contemporary society.

The contemporary philosopher AC Grayling discusses education in the following way: «The aim of liberal education is to produce people who go on learning after their formal education has ceased who think, question, and know how to find answers when they need them.

On the contrary, he was described by a contemporary as «a man of liberal education and enlarged notions».