In the article, “Helping Students Find their Place in the World”, by Danielle Allen divides education into liberal arts and vocational education, then discusses each’s importance. She claims that humans are born incomplete and need education to fulfill themselves. For humans, there are four main reasons for education: for breadwinning work, for political work, for self expression, and for relationships with others. When it comes to what someone educates him- or herself to do, there are two schools of thought. There is the utilitarian method that Plato thought would have been better, where when people are born they are given a vocational education to get a job and that job only so no one is redundant or useless. This approach ignores the human
