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Context of Education
Summative Assignment
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What is a ‘liberal education’? What are its advantages, and what are its drawbacks? To what
extent is a liberal education appropriate for the twenty-first century?
To answer whether liberal education is appropriate for the twenty-first century we first have
to look at what a liberal education is
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However, when you look at liberal education seriously
you find that a Liberal Education is education that focuses more so on creating and shaping
of an individual
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Liberal education aims to produce people with culture and cultural knowledge
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In the words of Leo Strauss, liberal education is primarily
‘cultivation of the mind, the taking care and improving of the native faculties of the mind in
accordance with the nature of the mind
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Liberal education exists to provide a
liberated and liberating education; allowing learners to satisfy our educational thirst, to
learn all that we deem as material that will allow our desires of education to be fulfilled,
freeing us ‘from the bondage of necessity’ and ‘prompting
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An additional benefit to this form of education comes from the element of liberal education
that allows the students to be flexible in both their learning and retention
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This is because in liberal education the modules that students often take are
adapted to ensure that when students go into the work place they are prepared, such as
taking combinations of sciences and social sciences so they have a broader idea of what
makes up both the knowledge they hold and how to distribute this knowledge effectively in
the real world
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Those who have a liberal
education often take a very broad range of classes, meaning that they not only have set
knowledge of their major but they have scattered knowledge of subjects around their major,
giving them skills in critical thinking, maths, writing, social skills, public speaking and many
other areas of knowledge that they may not have been able to experience in their chosen
foremost subject area
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One other advantage to a liberal education is the concept of liberal education allowing
students not only to criticize the world around them but learn, adapt and form around the
culture, nature and individualism of their own environment
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Emerson saw liberal education as a tool not to benefit the economy, not for profession, not
to pass exams, but education in the sense of liberal education should create, it should ignite
the fires of our imagination and our own originality
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In the cases of much liberal education it seems to be that the
main focus of liberal education will always be situated around western cultures, though
there are many rich and diverse cultures that could be just as beneficial to be able to
integrate into
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We are
limiting ourselves to what we know and not what is out there to discover in a social sense
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Funding for liberal education is often found to be an issue, often due to
equipment needed to sustain students in liberal education being costly
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This often costs more considering that the sizes of classes are
often much smaller than other classes, this is to allow students to have a more one to one
connection with their professor
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Another issue often found with liberal education is that those teaching student in liberal
education are students themselves, therefore to teach these teachers (who are also pupils)
there must be minds greater than theirs, to ensure that there is no uncertainty in what it
taught to teachers and then in turn to the pupils, those who are qualified to do this in any
great way are very hard to come about
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If we were to now to consider whether students receiving a liberal education is appropriate
for the twenty-first century we can consider many of these advantages and disadvantages,
however liberal education is very different now to how it stood in the centuries’ beforehand
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One thing to consider is the level of education pupils receive from a liberal education
compared to other forms of education, the traditional verses the progressive
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Once again going back to the Ancient Greeks, we
can see that many of the same values of liberal education still exist today
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’ Aristotle characterised education being ‘sought for some purpose beyond itself’
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However true this was of the time this is still true of liberal education
today, information is still taught for the learner, not for other entities
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More commonly now education is here more for the after effects of education,
employability is usually the main objective of many students and teachers alike
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Focus groups that have been commissioned by the Association of
American Colleges and Universities found that employers tend to want higher education
institutes to teach students applicable knowledge, so they will be able to apply what they
learn in higher education to everyday work place events (Hart Research Association, 2015)
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’ (Schneider, 2009)
As the twenty-first century methodology we now have towards liberal education is so
valuable there is now enough funding from many organisations to ensure that students are
aware of the benefits of a liberal education and the funding is now more than ever available
to higher education institutes once students enrol
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One of the reasons that liberal education seems to fit well into twenty-first century western
societies is the model currently used as a method of teaching, this model veers slightly from
the very traditional methods of teaching a liberal education
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WICS is successful in many ways for the modern age, one being that the way that students
are instructed and assessed is much the same no matter the level that they may be at
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The prime difference of WICS liberal education and most other forms of liberal education is
the fact that there is more of an emphasis and it capitalises on the strengths of the students
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When considering WICS for the twenty-first century we must also think of how
WICS helps to adapt the outside world of education
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From this, I conclude that traditional forms of liberal education are not strictly appropriate
for the twenty-first century
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While this is true liberal education is often seen as a way for
students to achieve things outside of their Field of education, allowing them to gain skills
that will be used in the real world and the work place
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