The way Liz Coleman summarizes her argument is that she wants a broader college experience less specific majors and more of a renaissance man ideal. Walter Kirn tells us his story about how he went to the top colleges and university but he learned nothing and then later it clicked for him, that all the topics he was taught had …show more content…
In Liz Coleman TED Talk she starts off talking about how the Soviet Union saw the Liberal Arts ideals and wanted to go after it. They thought who better than the originators of Liberal Arts, Americans, “For, in truth, we had moved light years from the passions that animated them. But for me, unlike them, in my world, the slate was not clean, and what was written on it was not encouraging” (Coleman TEDTalk). Minerva which is a MOOCs and massive open online courses, has a very new teaching style, they are solely online allowing students and the professors to be international. Their grading system and teacings are not lecture based but seminar based. “On the Minerva platform, quizzes often a single multiple-choice questionare over and done in a matter of seconds, with students answers immediately logged and analyzed. Professors are able to sort students instantly, and by many metrics, for small-group workperhaps pairing poets with business majors, to expose students who are weak in a particular class to the thought processes of their stronger peers”(Wood 53). They have the same thought as Coleman only having five majors, “As Minerva students advance, they choose one of five majors: arts and humanities, social sciences, computational sciences, natural sciences, or business (Wood 55). They wants the students to have a broaden version of majors so they can have a well rounded education so that they will be more successful. Coleman hopes that“Students, in turn, continuously move outside the classroom to engage the world directly” (Coleman