University Dreaming

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The writer looks at many sources of authors who have found ways to criticize the liberal arts education that is available to students today. Most of these writers agree that the values of liberal arts programs reflect those of the society and culture in which they exist. The paper looks at the ways in which these changes have been affecting and continue to alter the face of liberal arts education in America.

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"Universities are rapidly becoming trade schools, churning out graduates trained for a particular profession but with very little in the way of a general education, particularly in the liberal arts. From the time of the ancient Greeks, education was divided between skills for the mind and skills for the body, the latter being subservient to the former. Today's universities appear to have lost this dichotomy. Several reasons for this have been put forth, the main one being the needs of a highly technological world. Many rue this loss of a more esoteric education and ponder its effects on mankind."

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