The Earthly Use and Liberal Education Per Giamatti in the short story, “The Early use of Liberal Education”, Liberal Arts has nothing to do with the pollical definition of liberal and is not an education in preparation for a profession. Throughout the short story the author makes arguments as to why Liberal Arts is practical. The author states that one should “free the mind”. I implored my own personal goals along with Giamatti’s definition of education to discover new educational studies.
Upon reading the Short story I found that the author takes a different attitude on the term Liberal Arts. The author looks at Liberal Arts as “freeing the mind”. Throughout the short story the author suggests what it takes for a learner to become liberally …show more content…
Giamatti responds to these people with solid remarks. Giamatti first argues that ideas shape humanity and makes us what we are today. Here I think he is stating that without free learning and free thinking away from conformity we can shape the future of our humanity. As Giamatti states, “Those who learn liberal Arts are taught to learn for themselves” (Giametti,164). This was a response to those who argued that Liberal Arts students wouldn’t have any opportunity for jobs as they would have no technical skills. The author continues to support the argument by saying that those who go into Liberal Arts will have no problem finding jobs because they can think for themselves and think outside the box. Another argument those had about how Liberal Arts doesn’t look at the real world and is not preparing those to survive. Giamatii’s response was that the spirit one has will last longer than any job. That the good for humanity and one’s self is of much more significance. As mentioned earlier the author also argued that thinking freely will give these people an advantage to think outside of conformity and can survive. The author also questioned why we must relate the “real world” something beyond education. He argues that ideas are part of reality and that acquiring knowledge is part of one’s daily …show more content…
If Giamatti were to set limits on the free mind I believe it would involve being grounded, as in knowing where the thoughts began. In the short story the author states that, “to not undermine what we seek we should have some limits” (Giamatti 164).This to me means that we shouldn’t forget about how our ideas were built and where they came from. The author also hints that we should have a limit to how much we freely think. This would be because if we freely think all the time we would not accept those who want to think freely as well. There would be chaos among those attempting to think freely and those who considered themselves superior. Without these restraints as mentioned above the concept of thinking freely wouldn’t be defined as free because per Giametti, one cannot think freely if you cannot wish less for others than you wish for
Upon reading the Short story I found that the author takes a different attitude on the term Liberal Arts. The author looks at Liberal Arts as “freeing the mind”. Throughout the short story the author suggests what it takes for a learner to become liberally …show more content…
Giamatti responds to these people with solid remarks. Giamatti first argues that ideas shape humanity and makes us what we are today. Here I think he is stating that without free learning and free thinking away from conformity we can shape the future of our humanity. As Giamatti states, “Those who learn liberal Arts are taught to learn for themselves” (Giametti,164). This was a response to those who argued that Liberal Arts students wouldn’t have any opportunity for jobs as they would have no technical skills. The author continues to support the argument by saying that those who go into Liberal Arts will have no problem finding jobs because they can think for themselves and think outside the box. Another argument those had about how Liberal Arts doesn’t look at the real world and is not preparing those to survive. Giamatii’s response was that the spirit one has will last longer than any job. That the good for humanity and one’s self is of much more significance. As mentioned earlier the author also argued that thinking freely will give these people an advantage to think outside of conformity and can survive. The author also questioned why we must relate the “real world” something beyond education. He argues that ideas are part of reality and that acquiring knowledge is part of one’s daily …show more content…
If Giamatti were to set limits on the free mind I believe it would involve being grounded, as in knowing where the thoughts began. In the short story the author states that, “to not undermine what we seek we should have some limits” (Giamatti 164).This to me means that we shouldn’t forget about how our ideas were built and where they came from. The author also hints that we should have a limit to how much we freely think. This would be because if we freely think all the time we would not accept those who want to think freely as well. There would be chaos among those attempting to think freely and those who considered themselves superior. Without these restraints as mentioned above the concept of thinking freely wouldn’t be defined as free because per Giametti, one cannot think freely if you cannot wish less for others than you wish for