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Liberally Educated Reflection

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As I look back at my semester of learning about different cultures, identity, and immigration, I was able to reflect on how to relate this to many different resources, including myself. I was able to grow as a person and gain so much knowledge about different perspectives I would have never learned about without this class. Although people believe adapting to the cultures they do not know about or care about is unnecessary, we need to consider and be knowledgeable about how other cultures work to understand society. Since the world is a diverse place, being unaware to these new cultures will result in a community of people who are unable to grow culturally and keep in the shell of their own cultural society.
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If this type of education is freedom, there should be less rules applied to schools and students. To be “Liberally Educated”, you must have certain qualities, such as: listening or seeing something of various topics and being able to understand and explain them right off the bat. Cronon lists ten different qualities that someone who is liberally educated should have instead of having rules, including: to listen and hear, read and understand, talk with anyone, write clearly and persuasively and movingly, solve puzzles and problems, seeking truth, practice humility,tolerance, and self-criticism, understand how to get things done in the world, nurture and empower the people around them, and follow E.M. Forster’s injunction. This seemed very ignorant in the sense that anyone who wants to get an education and who go through the education should have such qualities. These ten “simple” qualities that liberally educated students should have, should also be applied to those of a general education. I disagree with most of the ideas that Cronon has, and one more than others: that we should measure a child 's education on how well they meet his ten qualities. He does, however, state one thing I agree

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