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    of the Liberal Arts     As the world has become more technologically‚ economically‚ and scientifically oriented‚ the education of future generations has changed with it and has become more focused into three fields: technology‚ economy‚ and science. With the intellectual focus being turned toward the sciences and mathematics‚ students and teachers have both moved away from the liberal arts‚ leaving them forgotten. Recently‚ there has been a desire to restore the liberal arts to education‚ and it

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    Why Liberal Arts?

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    Most students question why we have to go to school and take liberal arts courses that do not necessarily prepare us for our field. When we ask our professors or teachers‚ they tell us it is because we should learn to be “well rounded” students. This is not enough to convince many. Students do not have a real understanding of why liberal arts education is helpful so they do not see the need to learn it. Many students only memorize the facts to pass the tests they have to take and then forget it because

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    WHY LIBERAL ARTS? A majority of students from around the world tend to train themselves during their college years under one subject. But what if there is a chance for you to learn more‚ by paying the same amount for just one single course. A liberal arts education gives a broad knowledge base by increasing your frame of reference. It also helps you exercise your mind‚ problem-solve and generate new ideas. This type of education can prepare you for many fields in today’s workplace. A liberal arts

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    Liberal Arts Benefits

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    Liberal arts is a form of study in which the learner focuses on gaining general knowledge‚ rather than a specific skill in a specific line of work. It is designed to give the learner a more full educations. I chose liberal arts because I feel it is important to have this full education- that is‚ to be exposed to various viewpoints and sides of life that I may otherwise pass over. I was also drawn to the idea of not being limited in my studies to courses only pertaining to my major. So‚ it was both

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    Liberal Arts and Students

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    Second Edition LISA AMPLEMAN University of Cincinnati W. W. Norton & Company NEW YORK LONDON CONTENTS Preface 5 PART 1 - "THEY SAY" 7 1 "THEY SAY": Starting with What Others Are Saying 7 2 "HER POINT IS": The Art of Summarizing 8 3 "AS HE HIMSELF PUTS IT": The Art of Quoting 9 PART 2 - "I SAY" 11 4 "YES / NO / OKAY‚ BUT": Three Ways to Respond 11 5 "AND YET": Distinguishing What You Say from What They Say 12 6 "SKEPTICS MAY OBJECT ": Planting a Naysayer in Your Text 13 7 "SO WHAT? WHO

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    Purpose of Education

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    The Purpose of Education and its role towards an individual’s life and the Reforms in present education System In most of the dictionary education is defined as the imparting and acquiring of knowledge through teaching and learning. It’s is something one learns in schools and college‚ but I think that’s not true. Education is not only offered in school but it is journey which begins at birth and for most of us it has already begun. Education is to not only equip people with the knowledge of the

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    The purpose of education is to open the minds of students to diversity‚ cultures‚ and views from all over the world. In order to create such an environment for students‚ they must be taught from different aspects of different people‚ should function in an uncorrupt society‚ and should have an unlimited amount of information that they can access so that the learning process can be achieved easily. Drawing on the articles “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”‚ “A talk to Teachers”‚ and “Studying

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    100829 The nature of liberal education is composed of general subjects‚ particularly humanities‚ which will help a person prepare‚ strengthen and broaden their knowledge and intellectual for the betterment of his future. It is also somehow able to tap a person’s hidden potentials and it allows him to know what he really wanted to pursue. Since it is the one that provides you the foundation to understand the Humanities‚ it makes it easier for a person‚ particularly students‚ to acquire more

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    PURPOSE OF EDUCATION First of all I would like to define education. Education is the process or is the way of learning. From childhood when we able to spoke and able to communicate with others then we started learning from our family & society. And for academic carrier we started to went school‚ after completing our school then we went colleges & universities for our higher education. And then we try to do job or business to live a lovely life. And this condition we try to led our sound life

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    The name of the article was called “only Connect… the Goals of a Liberal Education” by William Cronon While I read this essay I thought about how my strengths would help me in college to become a better person and a better student. One of the goals of a liberal education was that liberally educated students know how to listen and hear. I compared this with one of my strength goals which was harmony‚ knowing how to

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