Liberal Education’s Values Are Diminishing

Introduction

We have been disappointed at the high cost of tuition, the rising levels of student debt, and the diminishing performance of college graduates in obtaining excellent employment. INTRODUCTION Facilities of liberal education are experiencing losses in enrollments owing to a variety of causes. We are primarily required to develop the abilities needed for the job, which regrettably has been steadily declining owing to the diminution of the humanities, beginning around the 1970s, rather than challenge politicalness and engage in in-depth investigations. Although studies has proven that it is inconclusive to know whether liberal education at the upper echelons genuinely accomplishes this objective and core purpose, liberal arts is designed to strengthen a student’s ideals and make them virtuous. You may be wondering: “Is a liberal arts college worthy?” Are the principles that liberal arts seek to instill in us ultimately worth the long-term decline? Is it worthwhile to sacrifice liberal education in favor of civic education, which does not instill the same principles in us unless they are meticulously demonstrated?

ETHICS OF LIBERAL AND CIVIL EDUCATION

In order to understand how the decline of liberal education relates to the principles that both civil and liberal education uphold, we must first take them into account. “Liberal education is often defined as an endeavor to impart breadth, broad knowledge, critical thinking abilities, cosmopolitan sympathies, an appreciation of the arts, and a zest for the life of the intellect as a goal in itself,” says Lorraine Smith Pangle, a philosopher at the University of Texas. Pangle (208). Despite their value, civil education strongly encourages the application of these talents in the profession, where civil education places a greater emphasis than a liberal education. While civic education also teaches you to live freely and think critically, liberal arts education concentrates on a more open-minded perspective rather than these competencies, making you wonder why “liberal arts education is a luxury reserved for those who do not need to make a living.” Civic education is able to use these and meld them to equip you with one of the skills to earn a living. (Rowan 51)

Applications: It’s Not Just About the Cost

A comparison of values to the “cost” of tuition is made by Cate Rowen, executive director of institutional research at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. We forfeit the chance to promote the advantages of a liberal arts education, which define our institutional missions and our educational principles, if we base education simply on costs. It’s hard to understand how a term like dollars might influence the Liberal Arts region. These universities cost more; according to the Mellon Foundation, liberal arts colleges may cost up to $2,000 more on average than the typical 4-year private school and $10,000 more than the average 4-year public school. It’s not even about the values of LA. It would make sense that Liberal Arts universities have been raising tuition prices given that STEM colleges are more accessible and less expensive than Liberal Arts colleges. According to the AAC&U, a liberal education should equip students for responsible and fruitful lives. According to a comment by Rowen that connects to the opening sentence, Liberal Arts place a greater emphasis on moral principles than on academic knowledge, although rising tuition prices, budget cutbacks, and other issues have an impact on this trend.

DECLINING AND WHAT MIGHT COME UP AFTER THAT

Steven Brint is a professor of sociology at the University of California and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. In the 1970s, he released a research on diminishing disciplines in American colleges and universities. According to the research, liberal arts majors have been dropping in predominance, and vice versa, at universities with higher numbers of science and other disciplines. Results for public institutions and liberal arts-focused colleges and universities were less consistent in the adoptions category than in the drops category. Finding a stable balance would be challenging since, despite their decline, universities would prefer to add new LA disciplines than discontinue existing ones. It demonstrates that although all of these sectors have been declining gradually, they are doing so quickly in comparison to when the era began. It is possible to draw conclusions about ideologies like insularity and globalization from certain other areas in the LA field, but it is also clear that natural scientific fields have been declining generally, not just in LA. You start to wonder whether LA may make a return or if other industries within those areas have had economic development instead.