Fareed Zakaria In Defense Of Liberal Education

Liberal Education’s main purpose in not only to train someone for a specific position, but also to create or develop skills that can be utilized in any profession. However, I believe that the liberal arts are under pressure and in danger in today’s society. The threat that is overwhelming Liberal Education is cuts in programs and funding in private and public schools. Liberal, as defined in Fareed Zakaria’s In Defense of Liberal Education, is a Latin word which means “of or pertaining to a free man”. Liberal Education is learning that provides the learner to make them able to deal with variety. It provides learners the knowledge of both culture and society, as well depth study in a specific major or field. Liberal Education prepares students …show more content…
The world is quickly changing; less people spend time in any one career. Liberal Education prepares students to be a responsible at both the local and national level, as well as competent global citizens. The main difference between regular education and Liberal Education is at the end, where regular education provides access to prosperous careers, while Liberal Education had always had an ambitious end. Liberal Education has always been about the education of the whole person, providing multiple ways of thinking and creating, making people able to develop lifetime skills and …show more content…
As “In Defense of Liberal Education” Zakaria Pointed that with liberal education you can Improve you thinking and the way you do something as well it could free you mind and idea and could improve the way that you speaks and let you express yourself more clearly. Having a good thinking skill and being able to think critically can help you in all aspects of live whether it is personal life or your career planning or even your major, It helps you to think clearly and appropriately and makes you able to take beneficial decisions that could help you build a better life and better future. Student should believe that liberal Art Education will not harm them or make their future harder and make it difficult for them to get a career job or even it is not important and essential for the Major that they are currently learning, but they must believe that it could help and benefit them in all the aspects of live. I Believe that Liberal Education is as important as it been before, still In the 21st century it has the same importance that