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Purpose of Liberal Arts
- The liberal arts education isn't primarily for job skills but for cultivating sensitivity, critical thinking, and admiration of good and beautiful things.
- Its significance goes beyond practicality, focusing on broad, lifelong cultivation of the self.
Influence of Platonic Text
- The text "On the Education of Children" shaped Western classical education from the Renaissance to the 19th century.
- Although likely misattributed, its Platonic mindset profoundly influenced ideas about education and cultivation.
Meaning of Liberal Arts
- Liberal arts means the arts suitable for free people; it has roots in the Greek concept of "eleutheros," meaning free or sovereign.
- The concept centers on education appropriate for free citizens who govern themselves in sovereign city-states.