Liberal Arts Education Misperceptions

To define ‘critical thinking’, Khemani says, “Critical thinking is the logical result of being able to simultaneously synthesize multiple ideas in one’s mind.” In article “Recent Study Shows that 55% of International Leaders Have Liberal Arts Degrees”, Perkins presents Barna Donovan ’s argument about liberal arts education’s importance, saying that it teaches students how to think “critically [and] analytically, and how to use logic and reason to find facts and truth”. Similar to that William J. Lennox Jr. and Mary T. Spoto emphasize the importance of liberal arts education for developing critical thinking by saying that students not only complete a major but also come to a new ‘level of understanding, problem-solving and creativity through exploring ideas, comparing theories as well as arguing on different interpretation’.

After reading this article alters my perception about education. As a result, statistics reveal obtaining a college degree limits being in the unemployed bracket. Achieving a goal is impossible as long as thou is willing to put in the

The founder and director of the Joseph S. Murphy Institute, Greg Mantsios has provided thousands of students with an opportunity to earn a college degree, by helping non-traditional students particularly poor and from working class backgrounds obtain college degrees. Mantsios has made his institute as a center for conducting research, organizing public form and publishing educational material. Such as his essay "Class in America-2006" where he discusses the profile of three individuals of the upper class, working class, and lower working class societies. To show how many factors affected them such as education, along with many other components to ensure a place with in their level of society. Harold S. Browing profile used by Mantsios to represent the factors that influence an individual in the upper-class society.

Caroline Bird’s argument against postsecondary education is incorrect, specifically her beliefs that students are exposed to too many options and graduates only want jobs that save people. First, Caroline Bird shares her belief that “a college experience that piles option on option …merely adds to the contemporary nightmare.” Although too many options can be overwhelming sometimes, it is a good thing to have several options for people to choose from. For instance, as a student, I have been exposed to many options: what classes I should take, what major I should major in, what professors I should take, etc.

Stoller's publications range from ethnographies, biographies, memoirs and novels. In his recent blog, "My struggle with anti-intellectualism," Paul Stoller, emphasizes the need for students to reason critically. Most students have the old paradigm of college perception. If one attends college and invests much money in the education degree, they in return acquire the aids to land on a well-paying job. According to Stoller, the society seemed to have ignored the sociocultural alignment to the world.

You don't have to know right away, but don't miss out on the value that college can bring you. In the article "Actually, College Is Very Much Worth It" by Andrew J. Rotherham, the author states,"College graduates are also more likely to be in jobs with better benefits, further widening the divide" (Rotherham 80). Having a better job and a better salary is good in many ways as to being able to pay for more like a car, house, and maybe kids. Money is a struggle for a lot of people and if you go to college you get an advantage to getting more money.

Ultimately, colleges put higher education on a pedestal, which in turn makes job requirements steeper. This raises the price of supposed “basic” education, while not increasing pay for jobs. With a focus on specialized education for low-paying jobs, and consequently less income with more debt, colleges cause long-term financial problems, showing a complete disregard for the actual well-being of the student and their future, which is why students should examine other possibilities to secure their

The reasons that college is important to me are the college experience and job availability. When I say job availability, I’m not saying that you can’t get a job without a college education, but it is increasingly easier to get a job with one. In most cases, in order to be competitive in getting jobs like doctors, architects, and scientists, but in other cases, it pays to have some sort of college education, because someone with a college degree is more likely to get hired for a job than someone who doesn’t have a degree. Those with a college education are usually paid more than those without a college education and you don’t need stats to figure this one out. Between a

College, college, college...that’s all most high school students are worried about these days. But is college really worth the cost of money and time? A degree is a wonderful thing to have, however most students and parents are contemplating if college is actually worth the struggle. Going to college is worth the time, money, and work. Even though finances are a big problem for students, financial aid helps miraculously, and while attending college a person becomes more educated, as well as receives better opportunities.

A transparent and rigorous evaluation system is expected to be implemented in the academic system to ensure a complete professional education. Globally, in academics, bell curve is a method of assigning grades designed to yield a preferred distribution of grades among the students in a class. Stringently speaking, grading on a bell curve refers to the assigning of grades according to the distribution known as the normal distribution. But in the Indian scenario, few universities fail to follow the global pattern of assigning grades. This paper tries to project the anomaly in the evaluation system and opens the window for the administrators to take stock of the situation and enable corrective measures for the betterment of the students and society.

A liberal arts education teaches arts, sciences, and humanities, which results in many people having their opinions on the value of having a liberal arts degree. Some college students believe that following their career track is the only way to be successful, as opposed to going to a vocational school or pursuing a career in liberal arts. On the other hand, some students feel that pursuing a liberal arts degree can not only make them successful in their career, but educate them on how to communicate effectively as well as how to think critically. In my opinion, I think that whether a student wants to pursue a career in liberal arts depends on the person. Charles Murray and Stanford J. Ungar, authors who wrote about higher education, have different

I agree with this article. For-profit colleges help people in their education in a lot of different ways. However, many people earn a degree to get a job. If the debt that they procure while doing so is more money than that which the degree can help pay off, that degree will have lost its meaning. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus support this argument in their article “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?”

In Derek Bok’s essay, “Preparing for a Career,” Bok challenges that idea that liberal arts and vocational training are world’s apart. Instead, he gives a different point of view that maybe the two fields of study are two sides of the same coin. While getting a professional education is important, job training is just as or even more so important. However, job training on its own has its drawbacks as well, so combining the two has merit. Philosophy, creative arts, humanities, etc.