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The Importance of Liberal Arts Education

Liberal arts education encompasses the entire human intellectual experience , including the humanities , the arts , and sciences , both social and natural . While students ' educational and post-graduation goals (i .e . employment and graduate school programs tend to require more and more specialization , the world that we live in today is becoming continually complex day by day

When students arrive for the first time in school , many of them are amazed at the general education classes they have to

pass before they can graduate . Some wonder why somebody who is schooling to become a psychologist , bookkeeper or television maker should undertake courses that have no direct relationship with their fields . It is indeed , a fair question . Why should one study literature , history , art philosophy , music or other courses outside of one 's major ? Why should one engage in subjects that do not help in training him for his future job ? Why study logic when all you want to do is be a first-grade teacher or church organist ? Is it necessary to study computer programming when you will probably not ever write a computer program in your field of work

To answer this question , let us take a look at some benefits a good liberal arts education , and the accompanying widespread knowledge to be gained from liberal arts education

Students arrive at school with many career objectives and options like public service , law , service vocations , health professions business , engineering , teaching , and ministry . A good Liberal education is required for all of these and more . Liberal learning provides the critical intelligence , skills , talents , and the range that enables people to have access to many careers , even if one does not seek graduate or professional training after a bachelor 's degree . The year 2001 human development report stated that

A broader approach to research in human development is proposed that focuses on the progressive accommodation , throughout the life span between the growing human organism and the changing environments in which it actually lives and grows . The approach emphasizes the use of rigorously designed experiments , both naturalistic and contrived beginning in the early stages of the research process (The Human Development Report . 2001

Liberal Learning

Liberal Arts Education is important and it helps in forming lifelong learners . Participating in a liberal education is a challenge and a privilege . To be liberally educated is to be transformed . Open and free inquiry , a devotion to excellence , the development of character , the mastery of competencies , the ability to think critically the excitement and rewards of learning - these are the aims and principles of a liberal arts education (The Liberal Arts Education http /www .lawrence .edu /about /libarts .shtml

Liberal learning liberates and frees people from time and place restraints , thereby enabling growth , change , and response to new unexpected or unforeseen circumstances . Being liberally educated means living imaginatively in worlds that are not our own , and being able to examine values that are not of our making

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