Summary Of Public Value Of The Liberal Arts By John Agresto

In the article The Unexpected Value of the Liberal Arts, the goal is to spread knowledge to others on how social and liber degrees can befit all. Expressing the beneficial skills and life stories helps to shed light on these degrees being viable opportunities that are not just associated with those of wealth and social influence. The author George Anders continues with this goal throughout the article by giving examples of modern people while attending college, changing their ideals, and adapting to situations that better themselves through changes of majors or utilization of college groups. The argument is that former stereotypes relating to liberal arts is not valid and that many opportunities can be opened by perusing this degree.

In Petrus Paulus Vergerius' understanding on the innovative aptitudes of the liberal arts, his arguments do have in any case important in today’s world. Liberal studies was very important to Petrus family. Petrus father, Jacopo da Carrara wished that he had adapted more in his childhood as he “died regretting that opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of higher studies”. Which leads to Petrus stressing how the lessons of the liberal arts “calls forth, trains and develops those highest gifts of body and mind,” (Perry 302).

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

The essay “A New Liberal Arts,” which was written by Sanford Ungar, first appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education on March 5, 2010. In his essay, Ungar uses many different rhetorical strategies to convince his reader that a degree in the liberal arts is not a lost cause but can actually be very beneficial and lead to success. In Ungar’s opinion, there are many wrong ideas and misunderstandings about the usefulness of a degree in the liberal arts. In the essay there are seven specific misperceptions that he addresses specifically. By listing out these misperceptions, Ungar is addressing them individually in order to give each one proper attention. He offers explanations to why people may think these things and why he believes that they are incorrect. Ungar’s use of style, format, and emotional and logical arguments help him to create a persuasive and influential essay for his audience and convince them to agree with his opinion.

The question is often asked: where do the modern day “liberal arts” come from? The liberal arts system originates in the philosophy of ancient Greece, and was born in from certain questions queried by the unique philosophy evolved in Grecian culture. Questions of the human soul were raised: What is the good life? Is ethical truth relative to the culture from which it comes? Do people have free will? What is it for one event to cause another? Why are liberty and democracy important? What constitutes life? What is knowledge? This search for absolute and objective truth within the world led to the search for our place within the world. This unprecedented philosophical undertaking is today associated with the likes of Epicurus, Socrates, Euclid, and Aristotle. Over time, these seeded questions blossomed into a structured form of inquiry. At the height of Greek philosophy in the fourth century B.C.E., scholars, teachers, and thinkers desired to establish a structured curriculum of subjects. This system of learning, teaching, and thinking was to prepare students for studies which were believed that every thinking person should have. From these aims came what was called the enkyklios paideia, or the “general education.” It is from this Greek effort that we are today given “encyclopedia” (Encyclopedia).

So what’s so special about the liberal arts? People tend to view it as a jack of all trades, master of none type of education. It’s commonly believed that those who attend liberal arts colleges are people with no direction in life, people who only applied because that was the logical next step after high school. I can identify

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

Patton believes we can find in their narrative lessons of restlessness and curiosity which should define learning today. More specifically, she believes that a liberal education should make one permanently restless and uncomfortable, yet curious. The restlessness should stem from a desire to always learn more. From a desire to keep expanding one's knowledge of one’s own expertise, a sort of vertical growth in one’s knowledge. The curiosity (and accompanying uncomfortableness) should stem from a desire to learn more outside of one’s expertise. Here Patton gave two stories about students who had been liberally

The principle of learning has always been valuable to me, and I remain curious to this day. I believe the only way to attain knowledge is to ask questions. The 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

The debate over whether or not a student should receive a liberal arts education has been prevalent in society since its first appearance. As previously shown, some people see it as a waste of time, while others see it as having value in the balance that it gives students. Still, others hold a liberal arts degree in high esteem. Each group has different reasons for their argument, but the essence of each inquiry is the same; are the skills that a liberal arts education teaches profitable enough to receive one? A much needed factor not included in the discussion, however, is how it affects one’s life later on. This should be one of the most influential aspects of deciding whether or not a liberal arts education is worthwhile gaining because where one wants to go establishes what one should do to get there. Therefore, the effects of a liberal arts education should be further examined to accurately determine its worth.

Relation to the Liberal Arts The liberal arts are a set of subjects and skills considered necessary to free a person from the repression of ignorance, and to give a free person the knowledge and abilities that enables them to have an active and productive role in the community. In other words, the purpose of a liberal arts education is to produce a person with virtues and ethics; one who is knowledgeable in many aspects and exceedingly articulate. The Bhagavad-Gita, the Allegory of the Cave, and the Rule of St. Benedict, all contain messages that relate to the liberal arts and their roles. “The truth will set you free” (John 8:32), these are eternal words given to us by Saint John the Evangelist.

In a world that is quickly deeming a Liberal Arts education as ineffectual, I stand beside it with a fierce determination to prove that assessment wrong. Liberal Arts, a general knowledge of the world is important.

In the American education system the liberal arts system has given many students a chance to explore many different subjects and career opportunities rather than one choice. In the American education system especially in high school and college years students have a greater opportunity to discover new and different classes. It gives the student a greater opportunity to learn different amounts of information. When I was in high school I took a class on “Theory of Knowledge”. The class gave me chance to better understand about how people have different viewpoints and having different reasons. In class we would have a discussion about people, culture, philosophy, history and etc. When I was taking this class I learned so much on certain thought

Like seemingly everything else in 2017, an article I read discussing the results of the 2016 presidential election was the inspiration for the research paper. While browsing the comments of said article (I believe it was one analyzing Betsy DeVos’ cabinet nomination), I discovered a small quarrel over the benefits of a liberal arts education. I had been told the benefits of a liberal arts education was quite a debate by a professor during my first semester at Bellarmine, but I had never before witnessed how serious it could be. Previously, I had only had a small debate with my rather conservative uncle who was distressed I was getting a “liberal” education from what he thought had been an upstanding Catholic school.

In a time when human endeavor was being redesigned, as industries, philosophies, and sciences were growing and affecting the world, Newman wrote an essay explaining the ideas and goals for seeking a liberal arts education. He states in his thesis that the function of such education, “is that of training good members