Why Is Liberal Arts Education More Important?
While academic knowledge can be a big advantage, liberal arts education is more important, because it can change viewpoint and priorities, help develop characteristics, while teaching how to think, and create the path to academic integrity. Though person can develop same characteristics in other ways, liberal arts education provides great support and shows the best possible way.
Liberal arts education helps to build personality by providing essential skills. One of the main skills is the ability to learn how to think. Though it may seem not as important, it is considered one of the fundamentals of liberal arts education, as it is more about the way of thinking instead of knowledge. The main purpose of this is to become self-aware and watch the world from other perspectives. This will help to choose from many sources what is right and what is wrong, as closed minded people will only tend to see whatever they do want to see, …show more content…
By looking at all skills it helps to develop, it can be seen that it develops the “ethical mind” (Gardner, 2006), so it helps to remove academic dishonesty from person’s characteristics. A person always tries to do everything in an easy way, when he does not see a moral of doing it in a hard way, so it leads to academic dishonesty, which, in case of not doing steps against it, can be developed and change the behavior to worse. What liberal art education does, is to give awareness, with which a person can determine why he needs to do that job, and why he should not do academic dishonesty. It helps to understand whether the job a person is going to do worth the effort, maybe instead of doing academic dishonesty he just do not need to do the job. So, liberal arts education helps to see what is in the heart, and use the mind as a servant, instead of being the slave of it, as “mind is a good servant but a terrible master”. (Wallace,
Liberal arts education helps to build personality by providing essential skills. One of the main skills is the ability to learn how to think. Though it may seem not as important, it is considered one of the fundamentals of liberal arts education, as it is more about the way of thinking instead of knowledge. The main purpose of this is to become self-aware and watch the world from other perspectives. This will help to choose from many sources what is right and what is wrong, as closed minded people will only tend to see whatever they do want to see, …show more content…
By looking at all skills it helps to develop, it can be seen that it develops the “ethical mind” (Gardner, 2006), so it helps to remove academic dishonesty from person’s characteristics. A person always tries to do everything in an easy way, when he does not see a moral of doing it in a hard way, so it leads to academic dishonesty, which, in case of not doing steps against it, can be developed and change the behavior to worse. What liberal art education does, is to give awareness, with which a person can determine why he needs to do that job, and why he should not do academic dishonesty. It helps to understand whether the job a person is going to do worth the effort, maybe instead of doing academic dishonesty he just do not need to do the job. So, liberal arts education helps to see what is in the heart, and use the mind as a servant, instead of being the slave of it, as “mind is a good servant but a terrible master”. (Wallace,