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What Is A Liberal Education?
“What Is A Liberal Education? ...
In his essay he gives his views on Liberal Education. He states that “Liberal Education is education in culture or toward culture”. ...
Strauss believes that since liberal education is education in culture, we can simply not understand it all, because we have our basic Western Culture, which we as North Americans study, but what about all of the other cultures? Strauss feels that by limiting ourselves to Western Culture only, that we are condemning liberal education to a kind of parochialism. ...
“What can a liberal education mean here and now? ... Strauss believes that “liberal education is literate education of a certain kind, or some sort of education in letters through letters. ...
Strauss implies that Liberal Education “is the counter-poison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to it’s inherent tendency to produce nothing but (specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart)”.
Approximate Word count = 751
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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