The goal of a liberal arts education is to expose students to new viewpoints while continuously challenging the views they previously held. By challenging students to think beyond a right or wrong ...

The association’s statement says, regarding the goals of liberal education, that “widened horizons, breadth of knowledge, power of thought, and the intellectual confidence born of wrestling ...

But while many faculty members talk twaddle about accommodating liberal and vocational education -- by which they mean to “accommodate” liberal education all the way outside the city limits ...

“I think that the implicit goal, or argument, for liberal education is that it actually does change people,” she said. She said the educational goal is a “transformational mental model,” rather than a ...

CHICAGO -- Liberal education has many critics these day, so how can its purveyors and supporters better defend it? That was the subtext of several panels at a conference on whether liberal education ...

These days, we often hear parents of prospective undergraduates ask why their children should bother with a liberal education. After all, they say, vocational fields like business and nursing are ...

Jennifer Frey’s statement that she “could not be more thrilled to read Brandon McCoy’s argument that ‘the goal of education should be to create liberated persons who seek to examine life ...

A system of liberal education which maintains old traditions of intellectual or social aloofness cannot serve well under modern conditions. Our academic studies are, on this ground, open to criticism.

In the conclusion to my 2014 book “Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters,” I expressed my excitement at China’s new interest in liberal learning, and the experience I just had ...

It’s also one of the most improbable. As for the future, the U.S. will have to make difficult choices, as any country does. A liberal arts education can prepare citizens for life in a republic that ...

The value of a liberal education, as traditionally understood, has never been as great as it is today. As we think about the rapidly changing world our students face, in which fewer and fewer ...

At the University of Minnesota Faculty Consultative Committee meeting Thursday, a new liberal education (LE) curriculum was presented.The University’s current LE has been in place for about 30 y ...