Liberal education

Mark Edmundson wrote his essay titled “On the Uses of a Liberal Education” in 1997. As an English professor at the University of Virginia, Edmundson experienced a front-row view seat to the changes that were happening around the university. Throughout his essay, Edmundson gives his views and thoughts of how the college experience and expectations of those attending college have changed over the decades around the university he teaches and around the world. While these changes that Edmundson…

The official academic field of international relations is a recent field of study, beginning after the end of World War II, in the political sciences. While the academic field is fairly new establishment in the political sciences, the issues at the core of the discipline have been discussed for hundreds of years. One of the issues that is central to the division of international relations is the idea of security. The topic of security contains many different aspects all of which can be addressed…

There are three main schools of thought in International Relations and they are realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Liberalism is the paradigm that in short, holds the belief that emphasizes the importance of the international institutions that would serve to check relations with other international state actors. Realism stems from the notion that in this anarchic international stage, each state is out to better itself and the only way to survive is to gain more power. Constructivism is a…

with a liberal arts education. Initially this did not excite me, as I did not see the use in focusing my time here on themes such as sustainability, civic knowledge, and intercultural competence. I had thought to accomplish this, I would need to take unnecessary courses to fill a checkbox. Halfway through my education, I still do not know how to be a nurse, but I do know that my initial feelings about receiving a liberal arts education were wrong. Through reflecting on my experiences with…

one becoming an adult and making choices every day. David Foster Wallace uses "water" to symbolize life. During life, one thinks constantly, and a Liberal Arts education gives you the perspective of learning how to think. Without learning how to think, life becomes miserable, making it harder for one to be truly happy. The value of a liberal arts education is essential for not letting our thoughts control us. On a broader perspective, Wallace says that he is self-centered, in addition, he…

Yoni Applebam’s essay titled “A Liberal Arts Education for Business Majors” was published in The Atlantic on June 28th, 2016.This article is about why business majors should consider getting educated in liberal arts. To summarize the article, it mainly talked about how business majors are too focused on their business degrees, when they should be focusing on liberal arts, too. The reason for this is while people can still get jobs in their field, more and more businesses and companies are…

While reading chapter three Nussbaum’s book, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, I noticed several connections to Brooks’ article, When Beauty Strikes. In many ways, Nussbaum agrees with Brooks’ argument about the power of beauty in art, or in this case literature. Like Brooks, Nussbaum argues that social change can come about through art. She first makes this claim on page 94 when she writes, “…the artistic form makes its spectator perceive, for a time, the…

my friends or someone around me being idolized I want to feel what they feel. I want to feel loved by as many people as possible. I am influenced by those people, I am who I am today because of those people. In “Only Connect”: The Goals of a Liberal Education, William Cronon gives qualities that make a person liberally educated. You can dig deeper…

They pick a college with their intended major. Nonetheless, they usually end up switching majors, or even colleges. Why is this? In many ways, it is due to a lack of commitment – not necessarily on the part of the student, but on the part of the education industrry. A lack of commitment to truth, to the great facts about life and the great questions of life. The students who are lost today are largely lost to a lack of pursuing these great questions. They cannot enjoy their knowledge of…

what he thinks it means to have a liberal arts education aside from all of the book work. A liberal arts education is more than what is taught in the classroom. The Whorf Hypothesis also plays a role when looking at how inclusive speech and a liberal arts education relate to one another. Inclusive speech and the Whorf hypothesis both tie into supporting what a liberal arts education’s goals are. Inclusive language furthers the goals of a liberal arts education because it helps people make…