The Challenge of Liberal Education

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There are two ways in which you can think about education. One is equipping you with very concrete and practical applicable knowledge. The other meaning of education has to do with the sort of human development of an individual. These two should not, must not be offered as alternatives for a university's mission. My argument I make in the book and the sort of institutional advocacy that I engage in is in embedding liberal education in all of the professional degrees.

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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