Your morals, upbringings and values can define personal well-roundedness. The knowledge of which you are continually acquiring can be a reflection of well-roundness depending on how you choose to apply it. A liberal arts degree is just a small stepping stone to the path of becoming a well-rounded person. In Hickman’s essay many essential points came up about the goals of a liberal arts education. Hickman say; “the concept of well-roundedness seems to serve as a paradigm for the essential goal of education.” With this being said, it is believed that by attending a liberal arts university and receiving knowledge from all different fields that one becomes well-rounded.
The Analysis Of The Article “Good Advice For The College -Bound” By William Raspberry. The article “Good advice for the college -bound” is a publicist essay which advocates liberal arts education against the current trend of professional one. The title of the essay gives us to understand immediately that we deal with publicist writing, which aims at affecting our opinion and even action: the phrase “good advice” shows the subjectivity of the author’s intention to set our mind on this or that track. However subjective the intention is, the compositional structure of the article confirms with the rules of any one. It contains three parts: an introduction where the thesis is introduced, a body where it supported with argumentation and a conclusion where the thesis is repeated.
Bla** Sil**** Freire and Pratt’s Ultimate Individuality In the readings “The Banking Concept of Education” by Paolo Freire and “Arts of the Contact Zone” by Mary Louise Pratt, both authors bring forth the concept of the importance of individuality that is granted by the literate arts. The literate arts are important because in order for life to hold meaning there needs to be communication. Freire’s problem-posing education and Pratt’s contact zone education are very similar and both promote critical thinking and want to abolish the passive ways of the banking system. Students are now more conscious of their roles in the education system as the problem-posing and contact zone methods allow them to take on an even bigger role in their own education. In Freire’s and Pratt’s writings they share similar concepts about education through contact zones and problem-posing education, practices of each concept they have directly been apart of and criticism against the banking system which are having a huge impact on the modern education system today.
Perhaps more so than Emotivists, Prescriptivists see ethical language as fairly meaningful. They believe that the terms used are able to create absolute rules that everyone ought to follow. It would seem that ethical language is seen by many as very meaningful, although for varying reasons. However agent centred theories such as Virtue Ethics would argue that our main focus of morality should be on becoming as virtuous as possible, rather than deciding what is meant by ethical language. Therefore it would seem that perhaps morality should be more focussed on individuals’ actions rather then defining what is meant by ‘good’ and
Standards Based Instruction Rationales and Objections The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as No Child Left Behind, requires states to use academic content standards to benchmark federally mandated “adequate yearly progress”, in an effort to continually improve schools. Even though they remain controversial, state content standards have emerged as the most common way to meet this mandate. Regardless of our views about the future of the standards, one fact remains: there is definitely a higher content standards movement in U.S. education. (O'Shea, 2005) However, the question remains: how does this movement actually impacts schools and students? While it would be intuitive to assume that it is always good to have higher
I believe my experience as Liberal Arts major at Ashford has given me a deeper view of what education truly is and has changed my perception of education. Before entering this institution, I believed education was the only key to finding job opportunities and with the knowledge I have acquired, my views have changed on this factor. I have learned the value of putting a thought in everything I believe and as Wallace alludes, though is not all about capacity but the critical choice of what to actually think. In a nutshell, Wallace sheds of the fallacies and ideologies that different cultures and belief systems allude to on the matter of liberal arts education (Gregg Ten Elshof, 2009). This is a clear indication of the need to change perception and to apply education in every aspect of our lives.
As John Dewey once stated “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself”, his perspective of education also emphasizes on the collaboration among learners to an end of academic achievement, just like how importance for people to interact with others if they are to succeed. Reading the excerpt from Democracy and Education (Dewey, 1916), we can be certain that the idea of the group in learning is, to Dewey, of crucial significance. Every single person has a different original environment from which he was born, raised, grew up, and thus is so rooted to it that escaping from the limitations of this social group is not a simple task. Yet Dewey believes the group in learning could give a mean for people to conquer the challenge and “come into living contact with a broader environment” since they not only perform their own action but also have to perceive that of others as reference and react to it. This whole process offers opportunities to break down “those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity”.
The statement found the economic sphere to resemble an educative, self-sufficient, creative one, opposed to the mechanically manipulated system that was currently in place. The statement urged radical students and supporters to reinstate an idealistic society; focusing on theory, peace, and combatting civil rights and labor struggles. In order to achieve these goals, radicals felt it imperative to unite university regime with students and faculty alike, taking back the educational system with values central to them, opposed to a controlled process from the administrative powers to
Jessie Romelus Intro to Reading and Writing Newman insists that studying different varieties of majors in universities ultimately creates a citizen of good character. Initially, Newman discusses inequality between majors. He states that majors should not be isolated because they are all related to one another in some way or form. Thus, he implies that there should be a balanced education by including the study of different majors. He makes the connection to his point in saying that a student expands their knowledge when there is a study of different majors.
Education systems all over the world can be more or less fit into two main groups; the Liberals (Western countries) and the Functionalists (East Asian countries). The Liberal system has been the educational ideal of many Western countries including Great Britain and the USA. Liberal education seeks to develop analytical skills and critical thinking in students to prepare them to live life in all its dimensions. The liberals aim to liberate students from the immediate pragmatic concerns of society in education. On the other hand, Asian countries like Singapore and Malaysia have their functionalist system.