In “On the uses of a Liberal Education” Mark Edmundson discusses his experiences while teaching at the University of Virginia and how colleges and colleges students are changing for the worse. Edmundson starts off by telling the reader about evaluation day: a day when students are able to critique his teaching skills. Although for the most parts he gets good reviews, he wants something else out of the students. Edmundson explains to us that he, “want(s) some of them to say that they have been changed by the course,” (40) and he doesn’t want them to just say that they “liked” it. He wants his students to be different and to actually attach meaning to what they are learning. Throughout his article, he argues that students have become more tied
