Essays on Liberal Arts Education

Don’t Send your Kids to Ivy League

K-12 Education is the right of every citizen. The liberal arts education is a high quality education for the public, financed by the public. There is no need for anyone to strive to get admission in Ivy League or any other expensive private institutions that make high claims to education. The reality is that they treat students as customers. They produce career ready individuals. They are super youngsters, and always prepared to appear for an interview. I am referring to the entire system of elite education in prestigious institutions that is common among the upper middle-class children like me. I ...

Introduction

There are numerous ways how an organization, be it a for profit or a not for profit organization, can show to their stakeholders that they are not just concerned about organizational survival and revenue generation but also concerned how they can return the favors they have received, whatever they may be, back to the people and society. This is, in fact, the reason why most companies have started to integrate corporate social responsibility measures in their organization. The same principle can be applied when it comes to the decision of adding a corporate philanthropy department in an organization. Corporate philanthropy is ...

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was one of the most elegant and horrifying pieces of literature written in its time, and is still widely considered a Gothic horror classic. The book follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a reclusive mad scientist, who seeks to create new life by sewing together the limbs and remains of several other dead bodies and reanimate them. The book and its monster have been compared to many different things in a variety of subtexts, but one of the clearest readings of the book indicates that the monster represents the dangers of knowledge, especially as the book posits that the pursuit ...

In his article “7 Major Misperceptions About the Liberal Arts” in the “Chronicle of Higher Education,” Ungar worries that the liberal-arts education is taking a lot of heat considering that it is a unique and effective approach to learning. This heat is from various stakeholders who include policy makers, news media and budget-conscious families. This according to Ungar is threatening the well being of liberal-arts education. According to me, the liberal-arts education is really taking a brunt as Ungar has observed as the government as well as many families are considering having their students take more practical courses that have well ...

Sanford J. Ungar’s “7 Major Misperceptions About the Liberal Arts” is an eye opener to the many critics of the liberal arts disciplines in institutions of higher learning. Ungar highlights seven misperceptions propagated by most critics of liberal arts. The main misperception highlighted is the assumption that liberal arts disciplines are irrelevant to the economy and that they are a luxury to many families “Hard Economic times inevitably bring scrutiny of all accepted ideals and institutions, and this time around liberal-arts education has been especially hard hit (Ungar, 2010).” The liberal arts are not only expensive, but have no ...

Abstract

Higher education is guided by philosophical principles that administrators use to set curricula and establish policies that govern how institutions are run. The educational philosophy of pragmatic instrumentalism offers one such ideal, which proceeds from a belief that theory and practical application could and should be meshed in order to prepare students to impact their environment. This is a theory well-suited for a Democratic society, the well-being of which men such as Thomas Jefferson believed hinges on the participation of an informed populace. Though pragmatism in higher education seeks a practical and applicable learning outcome for students, it does not mean, and should ...