Other than in professional courses...ie:Law, medicine, accounting etc....Liberal arts courses are TOTALLY worthless and they cost 20-60 thousand dollars per years. Colleges can be a lot of fun and usually are, but their value is depreciating at an alarming pace.
Done right, a liberal education teaches a young person to think for himself.
THE LIBERAL ARTS
Based on the types of studies that were pursued in the Classical world, the Seven Liberal Arts became codified in late antiquity by such writers as Varro and Martianus Capella. In medieval times, the Seven Liberal Arts offered a canonical way of depicting the realms of higher learning.
The Liberal Arts were divided into the Trivium (”the three roads”) and the Quadrivium (”the four roads”).
The Trivium consisted of:
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
The Quadrivium consisted of:
Arithmetic — Number in itself
Geometry — Number in space
Music, Harmonics, or Tuning Theory — Number in time
Astronomy or Cosmology — Number in space and time
The irony is that “liberals” have come to dominate academia and enforce an ideological rigidity that prevents students from learning how to think for themselves; to the contrary, they learn to swallow anything and then regurgitate it upon command in order to please their masters.
If you know what’s good for you, you write down what you think your professor wants to read.
In a sense, modern American higher education teaches the art of `doublethink’ so that Orwell’s nightmare dystopia has become reality: “This is not want I really thing but it will get me a good grade.”
We’re seeing it brought to fruition with current attempts by the left to punish “hate speech” by students, to punish white students for the accident of their birth and with the birth of lunacy such as “microaggression” and current attempts by Democrats to make “climate change” equivalent in importance to (the nuisance of) religious maniacs mowing down their fellow mammals with machine guns.
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