An Analysis of Liberal Education and its Importance

This essay delves into the significance of liberal education within educational institutions, emphasizing its role in fostering ethical and socially responsible individuals. It explores the impact of liberalization on contemporary society and the contrasting commitments it invokes. The essay highlights the importance of liberal education in developing critical thinking skills, cultural understanding, and job opportunities. It references various viewpoints, including those of Maria Montessori and Rudolph Steiner, while also acknowledging critiques of liberalization. The essay underscores the need for a holistic approach to education that encompasses humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields, ultimately preparing students for both specific careers and life in general. It examines how liberal education enhances personal development and promotes transferable communication skills, essential for navigating the complexities of the modern world. The essay emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations and the ability to analyze and question information as key components of liberal education. References are provided to support the arguments presented.

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LIBERAL EDUCATION
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Education is the manifestation of perfection in man. Liberal education is the process
of learning which give individuals the completeness to deal with every situation of their
society. It also helps the students to know the different cultures and provides them with broad
ideas of outer knowledge all over the world. Liberal education is a lesson for every student to
learn ethics, moral, which are the most important social responsibilities. Liberal education
also motivates the students to become more intelligent as well as make them understand
social obligations, ethics, and culture (Routledge). This essay will discuss the importance of
Liberal education for schools, colleges or every educational institution. This essay will
elaborate on those factors which are relevant for the Liberal education (Berg, Devin and
Tina). This essay will highlight the reasons that how Liberal education is necessary for the
students and what will be the impact if this process of education will be provided among the
student positively.
Liberalization has made a significant influence on contemporary society into the
educational field. On the other hand, liberalization in education also invoke some
fundamental commitments which contrast with each another (Creech and Larry). Those
fundamental commitments give those different arguments a new shape. The liberalization of
education enables the researchers to study and practice for better understanding (Exter et al.)
although the deregulation of education has a different shape in different nations. The worth of
Liberal education can be restrained across the world along with all the cities and towns, by

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the process of how individuals ponder about the critical glitches and what they would do to
resolve those difficulties. The Liberal education and liberal arts can also create the job
opportunity all over the world.
There are different viewpoints for Liberal education within education. Maria
Montessori and Rudolph Steiner’s method can be taken as an example while going to talk
about the radical democracy in education which is the part of free school movement (Godwin
and Kara). Some of the eminent personalities like Franklin Wright, Ziyuan Wang have
opposed this practice by using some irony about liberalization in education. Some of them
have expressed their negative views in Arts or understandings to give the proper lesson of
ethics, morality to the students. They have shown their realistic approach while talking about
the liberalization in education. In contemporary society, people are very sensible,but they are
lacking their ethics and norm which is more important than becoming a real personality.
Personality only can improve when the person gets the proper knowledge about social rules
and responsibility (Livingstone and David).
The persons who are saying that philosophy can not provide a job to anyone, are
basically showing their wrath, anger upon the society as they have suffered very severely due
to the same situation. Some persons have given the critical approach to their viewpoint by
stating that it could have been better if all the colleges and universities should have stopped
recruiting the faculties of humanities or arts (Omar et al.). Some of the critiques have
suggested hiring new employees into the field of engineering, medical and business so that
the people could be benefitted. By arguing their points, the Association of American Colleges
and universities has defined a Liberal education which gives the empowerment to the people
with proper knowledge base sensibility. This sensibility of knowledge makes them
understand the cultural lack, the appropriate ethics, and the strong sense of responsibility.
Now a days the Liberal education is enhancing its level where people are getting proper

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education. Liberal education not only give the job opportunity to the people, it also enhances
the level of personal development.
Liberalization of education can be learnt from the two aspects of our contemporary
situation, such as liberalization in education and liberalization through education. The livery
is applicable for all the sections of the society in a different context that is- political, social as
well as economical. In liberalization through education the main focus if liberty, that has to
be understood from the educational point of view. The ambience of education should have to
be proper as well as social so that both the individuals can express their views together. One
Argument can be focused on how liberty has been achieved by Higher education. The
argument has focused on, how Liberal education receives its appropriateness through the
possession of freedom (Peterson and Patti). This Argument recommends higher education as
the active factor for the society along with the individuals.
While going to talk about Liberal education, David Kearns has given a statement by
saying that the only knowledge which makes us prepare for changes is a Liberal education
(David). He has also suggested that we need to go according to the time so that we can be
capable enough to learn over time. On the contrary Rebar and Max has talked about wasted
education. According to Rebar, the children’s higher education is disinvestment where they
can use their money for the other references. On the contrary, Ed.Douglas has introduced a
new perspective on education policies and economic benefits. On the contrary to Rebar's,
Zakaria claims that Liberal education gives us the potentiality to think correctly and to
communicate. Zakaria also argues that Liberal education is not about the preparation for a
particular job; instead, it is a preparation for any job along with its life.
This permissive education is a collective form of experiences, which may provide
their own experiences to the upliftment of the practitioners (Shen and Wenqin). On the other

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hand, Liberal education is the art of learning which involves the course of training in natural
sciences including math, humanities in social sciences. The basic sciences and mathematics
are related to STEM which includes science, engineering, technology and mathematics. The
average group of a college student are required to present into the field as a sample in each
subject. The students belong to the group of science, have the knowledge about what would
they do if the small object clashes with another one, or at the same time, which exact thing to
be done so that the solution can be made through that process. The students who belong to the
social science group, have the perfect knowledge about how the resources can be adequately
used by the people of the companies for the benefit of the wealth. The students who belong to
the humanities group must have knowledge about the ethics and morality which may lead
them to open the window into a new culture, as well as a new world (Taylor and Laura).
Liberal interpretations about the equality inside the education process focuses upon
the consequences for the groups rather than the entities. This methods clutches the essential
component of the study is the group analyses where frequently exposes the concerning
outlines of inequality. For this instance one example can be taken to ruminate the educational
system through which all the members of one group may be it is racial, or social, or may be
cultural, or economic, have an average inferior educational results than the members of the
other group. Liberalization finds that these sort of group drifts undoubtedly point out an
inescapable inequality that needs to be addressed, likely by reformation of the situations that
are contrasts of educational consequences between the concerning groups which are more
closely towards quality. On the other hand the Liberal education is a lesson for every student
to learn ethics, moral, which are the most important social responsibilities. Apart from that
Liberal education also motivates the students to become more intelligent as well as make
them understand social obligations. Only through the Liberal education students can enhance
their sense of the social responsibility along with their transferable communicating skills.

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In the contemporary days, there are several examples related to the liberal human
education, but the most critical point is that, the only way through which the thinking
processes can be improved and the other areas the individuals must be exposed to their
various forms of thinking, analysing, and questioning. Through this process, learning Human
values, ethics humanities along with the experiences that have been achieved by the study in
different fields, may be different from each other, but they are all vital pieces of liberal arts.
This liberal art includes general knowledge, along with all the science related subjects. This is
why human values, ethics, morality can only be learnt when Liberal education will be
completed.

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