The Importance of Teaching Students to Be Lifelong Learners

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The greatest thinkers and teachers of the world are people like yourself and me who just have a thirst for knowledge. Liberal education is not something that needs to happen in a classroom, it should be pursued wherever you are. People get out of balance when they're chasing fame or trying to make money off their time at university. Education really assumes that people have division, have the site, but they're not looking in the right direction. That's what liberal education does - re-orients you.

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Roosevelt Montás. A Senior Lecturer at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. . a renaissance man who loves literature and writing, as well as being the director of Columbia University's Freedom and Citizenship Program.He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation