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waiting to be taken advantage of by these students. In Sanford J. Ungar’s The New Liberal Arts he addresses the many misperceptions made by Americans about Liberal Arts degrees and why they are no longer useful in the modern world. Many Americans believe that because of the current economic situation that an added expense of a liberal arts degree is wasteful, they also assume that employers no longer are looking for liberal arts degrees…

. . do better on the C.L.A. . . . while the students who score the lowest and improve the least are business majors.” They say that there can be many reasons for this, liberal arts students take more classes that involve reading and writing. They also are much more selective when it comes to picking out their colleges, which means they are “prepared academically” which “makes them more likely to…

nature of democracy, and this paper will aim to bring forth yet another one. Each term has its own different definition attached to it, ranging from the original, participatory form that did not have any notion of a hierarchy, to the more modern liberal democracy that instead relies on this notion of a hierarchy. Democracy is the movement that never stands still; it sails on the ship that is progressiveness. Progress is what has allowed democracy to be shaped and molded so often, and this is…

Soon after completing his studies, Tim was given the opportunity to work as a dean for Loyola University. He enjoys using his liberal education skills to solve the issues of numerous college students, thus improving the campus as a whole. After thinking about all of this, it has become apparent to me that success is not something achieved for oneself, but for the betterment and…

in Baltimore, Maryland . He wrote “The new liberal arts”, in this essay he clarified the misperceptions of obtaining a liberal arts degree. The second author, Charles Murray works at an American enterprise institute, conservative think tank in Washington, DC. He wrote” Are too many people going to college? ” . He talks about who should go to college and who shouldn 't. Ungar clarified several misperception; the first misperception is that the liberal arts degree is a waste in our economy. The…

William Deresiewicz claims that in the neoliberal world we live in, the market mentality drives students to attend universities purely to obtain higher paying careers, rather than to expand knowledge. This article describes how students are most interested in practicing majors corresponding with the highest salary jobs: “the most popular majors are the practical, or … the commercial ones: economics, biology, engineering, and computer science.” Today, parents invest in college with hopes to make…

pursue an education as a means to get a “better” job and make more money. So I ask again, what is the meaning of life? According to Seneca, pursuing an education as an end to making money is unworthy. This can be seen in his letter entitled, On Liberal and Vocational Studies, where he explains, “I have no respect for any study whatsoever if its end is the making of money. Such studies to me are unworthy ones” [Seneca pg17] . Some…

The liberal arts are many things. The study of liberal arts encompasses the arts as suggested by the title, math, and certain science (such as astronomy). It is debated by some whether the study of liberal arts is a good idea or not. A student on the verge of graduating high school have the decision on what to study. Often, he is told to study for just a specific career path and not to worry so much about general studies or the liberal arts. Basically, he is told to follow a path of study that…

purposes for the individual, and the benefits to society, in mind, certain subjects should be taught to individuals in order to prepare them for reaching these goals after they graduate. Through the offering of professional development courses, a liberal arts education and omitting some unnecessary requirements (like physical education) to free up space for more beneficial courses, students would be benefitted and this purpose of higher education would be achieved.…

because we should all strive to be better citizens and more productive members of society as to improve society as a whole for each and every one of us. Nicholaos Jones, a philosophy professor from the University of Alabama in Hunstville, argues in “Liberal Arts, and the Advantages of Being Useless" that the best way to make people better…