Making Excellence Inclusive Liberal Education

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Liberal education is not a common term, but it’s the type of education one would be familiar with if they study in the United States. Although many students are often questioning the usefulness of the materials they’re learning, the purpose of liberal arts is not only to cover for what will be in use but to also prepare for what might come to be. In many schools in United States, if not most, adopted liberal as their base of teaching. Even so, there has not been much explanation of why it’s like that. According to Carol Schneider in her article “Making Excellence Inclusive Liberal Education and America’s Promise,” she explains the purpose of liberal education saying that teachers here are not teachers of subject but of people, thus not only their knowledge should be passed on but also their passion. As for this type of education itself, is to provide “constant influence on institutional purpose,” and is the best “transformative resource for the lives students seek to lead, as human beings, as citizens, and as participants in a dramatically changing world.” …show more content…
Liberal education takes that belief, and bend it by simply asking “what if it will come into use?” making it better to know than not. According to David Corey in his article “Liberal Education: Its Conditions and Ends”, this type of education lets its learners to have a broader grasp of the world that is beyond their home, exposing them to their first knowledge of possible new environment and the lifestyles of different people of not just the ‘now’ but also what it ‘had been.’ By learning the ways of the ones who had lived and are living, the view we used to have regarding our society can change whether it’s in a good or bad way. Such as, learning about how the colonists and British repaid their debt to Native Americans in AP US