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To be successful, individuals need to balance knowledge and skills in a specific field with a broad liberal education. It is not a question of either/or. Rather, today it is essential to have both professional competencies and a liberal education in order to function productively and effectively in an interdependent world.
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This is particularly important for those of us who believe in the worth of liberal education, and who, ... Public service and a commitment to the human community are among the cherished values of all liberal arts colleges. Since 1961, graduates of the Annapolis Group schools made up 8% of all Peace Corps volunteers.
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Nov 21, 2004 ... But as I walked around the Dartmouth campus, I found that even those students who say they value liberal education don't necessarily know ...
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To renew and sustain the vitality of liberal education, Shulman maintains, we ought to make the liberal arts "even more professional." Arts and sciences disciplines would gain a great deal, he believes, if they consciously adopted such features of a profession as its commitment to service, its engagement with the...
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The diverse body of knowledge you will gain from a liberal arts education, together with the tools of examination and analysis that you will learn to use, will enable you to develop your own opinions, attitudes, values, and beliefs, based not upon the authority of parents, peers, or professors, and not upon ignorance,
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The discipline of computer science, however, is extremely well suited to the values of a classical liberal education: students who study it become intimately acquainted with objectivity, critical thinking, and personal responsibility.
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A residentially-based, interdisciplinary first-year program is an ideal environment for beginning the four-year process of developing the complex intellectual and social skills that are at the heart of a liberal education and the habits of considered values and engaged citizenship that such an education should produce.
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www.stlawu.edu/fyp/philgoal.htm
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Nussbaum presents the classic Stoical definition of a "liberal" education: "it liberates the mind from the bondage of habit and custom, producing people who can function with sensitivity and alertness of citizens of the whole world" (8). For her, the three most important aspects of a liberal education are the ability...
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My core values for a liberal arts education are: ... Almost without exception, Reed alums say that this was the single most meaningful part of their education. It gives them a tangible and undeniable achievement and a powerful ... « Statement of values and curriculum (#13) | Main | Reflections on liberal education (#15) »...
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