“The Death of Liberal Arts”, by Nancy Cook, does make a valid point that students should not only know skills that will get them a job, but the skills to analyze and dig deeper into given information. Nancy Cook talks about how Centenary College in Shreveport, La. took out liberal arts classes and added new professional programs that teach about skills that students will need to obtain a job. After understand the article, one can disagree with Centenary College’s decision in cutting the liberal arts classes and how this information relates to Fahrenheit 451. After understanding the article, “The Death of Liberal Arts” one can see that Centenary College’s decision was the wrong choice and how the text relates to Fahrenheit 451. Liberal…
Another valuable aspect of the liberal arts education is gaining a broad range of education with better-rounded knowledge base, rather than a strict focus on one career path. This ideally exposes one to…
There can be no denying the importance of a college education for countless individuals. However, that is not to say that decisions regarding where to apply, which major to choose and how the de...…
In “Can a liberal arts education really make us better?” by Richard Kamber, he argues that even though a liberal arts education can make us better, it depends solely on that person’s definition of better. Now the question on everyone’s mind, “What are liberal arts?” A liberal arts education gives us a general review of humanities, arts, and sciences. Liberal arts are usually delivered in small classes, full of active participants, by “seasoned faculty.” They aim to develop our character and provide us with an immense amount of skills, which ultimately gives us more money. Though often looked down upon, liberal arts have helped shape many great people such as Socrates, Giordano Gentile, Galileo, and Martin Heidregger.…
Nowadays, education is more and more common, most of the people who live in developed or developing country have a chance to go to school. However, the purpose of learning knowledge is changed, a lot of people who go to university because they are told that the degree is a guarantee of making good money. Since the purpose is making more money and due to the fact that liberal art majors are not directly relate to most jobs, a lot of people argue that Liberal art is a useless major, and people should take business or science major. They believe that taking liberal art majors is not beneficial to their career. In Edward Conard’s essay “We don’t need more humanities majors”, he basically mentions that humanities major…
She then immediately asks, “can a college education do both?” In order to present the answer to this question in the appropriate context, Tugend next discusses the most recent successful major change within the higher education system. Quoting from Professor Carnevale, she explains a shift in the early 1980’s from a liberal arts based higher education model to a more specialized one. The liberal arts based model, popular prior to 1980, is cited as having been much more flexible in that a student could “get a B.A. in history and become an accountant” (Carnevale qtd.…
In the most recent debates regarding higher education, a particular issue of whether a liberal arts education can benefit students is relentless. While most people directly connect a liberal arts education to a bright future in terms of a career, others argue against that. On one hand, Sanford J. Ungar strongly believes that despite some hardships that come along with college, everyone should take the opportunity to go. On the other hand, Charles Murray, Stephanie Owen, and Isabel Sawhill suggest that it can depend in terms of money and only those that are academically capable and enjoy learning should attend college. My view is that although some students…
A liberal arts education built into a STEM education is often thought of as wasteful. Some students prefer a strict STEM education because that would be cheaper and a more direct path to a career—I…
In “Credentialing Versus Educating”, the third chapter of Dark Ages Ahead, Jane Jacobs discusses a change in the intent and practice of higher education at universities and colleges. “Credentialing, not educating, has become the primary business of North American universities” (Jacobs 44). The institution of education has shifted its focus from passing on knowledge and teaching students to have critical faculties for the stability and growth of society, to simply certifying individuals in order to be considered for a job. Educating involves the learning of new concepts and gaining proper knowledge while credentialing is focused on obtaining a degree through four years of higher education. Jacobs makes the distinction by outlining that an education and a degree are not the same thing. According to Jacobs, there is an emphasis on selecting job applicants who have desirable qualities such as persistence, ambition, and the ability to cooperate and conform.…
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…
Recently, there has been a significant decrease in both employment rates and salaries among new college graduates. Rising college prices, increasing levels of student debt, and a still weak job market all contribute to the skepticism that many face when trying to determine which college degrees are valuable in today’s society, specifically if Liberal Art Degrees are “worth it”. People who earn Liberal Arts Degrees have less job opportunity and security than those who major in skill specific labor such as engineering or the healthcare field. Graduates who major in skill specific labor are more likely to find a job that requires their degree than those who major in Liberal Art Studies.…
In order to fully understand the benefits of going to a liberal arts institution, we need to have a good understanding of what a liberal arts education actually entails. First, a liberal arts education will often require students to develop the skills needed to be able to provide in-depth examination and critical distillation of material. A liberal arts education is defined as being a broadly based education in which students explore many different fields of study in order to gain a better working knowledge of the world, rather than focusing on one specific subject. Liberal arts institutions have a goal of educating the whole person, in order to develop a meaningful community for learning. Another goal of a liberal arts education is to try…
By earning a liberal arts education you will develop strength of mind and an ordered intellect. “The mind is like a muscle; by exercising it makes it stronger and more able to grasp ideas and do intellectual work.”(Robert Harris) This is very beneficial for owning a business because there are many ideas and different scenarios that can happen. “Exercising the mind in one area whether literature of sociology or accounting will strength and concentration, the ability to follow arguments and the ability to distinguish the important from the trivial and to grasp new concepts all the become easier as the mind is exercised and enlarged by a varied study.”(Robert Harris) These concepts from Harris are very important to running a business because there are many different jobs in running a business like accounting, management, production, sales, marketing, and advertising. These jobs are very difficult to master because they require so much studying. Accounting is in charge of keeping track of financial transactions, and also summarizing, analyzing and reporting the transactions to tax collection. This job mostly requires math and learning different types of math equations on how to figure out different financial transactions. If you want to master these jobs you are going to fail at the beginning, by you failing you will develop a better structure on how to figure things out. A…
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