How to pronounce “liberal education” in English

In liberal education the main thing you try to teach your pupils or your students is to think for themselves.

as liberal education, which is different from the European notion of liberal arts, which really said there were certain things you just had to know if you were well-educated.

What is liberal education?

The main idea of liberal education is that the student or the pupil is the highest authority, not the teacher, not the professor.

It is true that liberal education shouldn't be about the same things that would have been taught 100 years ago or 50 years ago, for sure.

Whereas the old idea of the liberal arts education, the liberal education, was that you're actually training people to be human beings and allowing them

I think the tradition of liberal education in the United States is a great resource for the culture

And Emerson thought that was part of liberal education.

I actually don't think that that is what liberal education has been about in the United States, which has been about useful knowledge, but useful knowledge

And that's why-- Wesleyan's president just wrote a book on why liberal education is useful in an era of comp-sci and

It is interesting to me-- we could talk about it in the discussion session-- it is interesting to me how liberal education, although it's

On the other hand, I also argue that there's nothing incompatible between liberal education

My approach is from American pragmatism, which helps us see that anything can be taught in the framework of liberal education.

is a great dissatisfaction with rote education and exam-based education, and a growing interest in what we might call liberal education.