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Empathy In Liberal Arts Education

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The importance of empathy can’t easily be expressed. It’s an important aspect of liberal arts education. It helps people to better cope with life. There are also many different ways to cultivate such a worldly skill. At its most basic, empathy is an important real-world skill to have. This is one of the major goals of a liberal arts education; developing real world skills. However, the difference in a liberal arts education from any other is the teaching of soft skills as well as technical. Soft skill aren’t taught so much as taken in with age and experience. These skills can range anywhere daily relationships to leadership. A liberal arts education is much more adept than a standard one at giving students the experience by which to build

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