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Liberal arts education (from Latin liberalis 'free' and ars 'art or principled practice') [1] is a traditional academic course in Western higher education. [2] Liberal arts takes the term art in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the fine arts.
A liberal education is a system or course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free (Latin: liber) human being.It is based on the medieval concept of the liberal arts or, more commonly now, the liberalism of the Age of Enlightenment. [1]
A liberal arts college or liberal arts institution of higher education is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts of humanities and science. Such colleges aim to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional or vocational curriculum. [1]
We need to give our colleges liberal arts curriculum while also preparing students for a competitive twenty first century job market.
Etymologically, the Latin word trivium means "the place where three roads meet" (tri + via); hence, the subjects of the trivium are the foundation for the quadrivium, the upper (or "further") division of the medieval education in the liberal arts, which consists of arithmetic (numbers as abstract concepts), geometry (numbers in space), music (numbers in time), and astronomy (numbers in space ...
Emma Green, writing for The New Yorker in April 2023, reports that what governor Ron DeSantis considers to be "a model for education nationwide" is an educational philosophy developed by Hillsdale College "as part of a larger movement to restore 'classical education'—a liberal-arts curriculum designed to cultivate wisdom and teach children to ...
The question of the liberal arts university's survival is not a new one. Skepticism about the value of a liberal arts education, the cost-of-attendance sticker shock, a renewed focus on job ...
Liberal arts programs have been declining for decades. From 1967 to 2018, college students majoring in the liberal arts declined from 20 percent to 5 percent. [203] Since 2011, enrollment in postsecondary education in the United States has declined by more than 2 million people. [204]