Fareed Zakaria's In Defense Of A Liberal Education
It has come to my attention that certain General Education (Gen Ed) courses may be removed from the curriculum. I’d like to address one Ged Ed course in particular, Math 107: Precalculus, and explain my reasoning for why it would not be in our university’s benefit to drop this course.
In my experience, few areas of study challenge students like a math course. Explained in the chapter “Learning to Think” of scholar and liberal arts advocate Fareed Zakaria’s In Defense of a Liberal Education, there are multiple types of intelligence: linguistic, musical, and logical-mathematical. He states, “students must experience several methods of learning conductive to these various intelligences,” (79) and study fields outside of their majors in order
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