Proposal On Liberal Education

Liberal Education: A Proposal on Education Ever since humans have created stratified societies, they always felt the need to educate themselves at a higher level. To make things clearer, these individuals always needed a higher education system because, it creates a higher need to be more of an intellectual, and also creates the desire to have a higher socioeconomic status. However, throughout history there has been many different higher education systems in order for people to achieve that higher socioeconomic status. Some of these higher education system contains different requirements in order to achieve so, that individuals can graduate. According to John Henry Newman’s “Knowledge Its Own End”, Newman proposes his theory of the perfect

To further elaborate, the ideology behind a liberal education system is basically a system that has broad education requirements. According to Newman’s “Knowledge Its Own End” he states that, “I am but saying what whole volumes have been written to illustrate, viz., by a "selection from the records of Philosophy, Literature, and Art, in all ages and countries, of a body of examples, to show how the most unpropitious circumstances have been unable to conquer an ardent {104} desire for the acquisition of knowledge." (33). With Newman’s idea, he would want an individual to take an extensive amount classes. Whether it is from chemistry, or classes from the social science field. Newman has great expectations on the effects on his proposed system if they were to be

Now according to John Newman, he states that by having a liberal education system, the percentage of the intellectual community would increase exponentially. By his expectations, Newman hopes that the intellectual community would be able to communicate with one another regarding any subject matter. Newman also states that in “Knowledge Its Own End” that, “All that I have been now saying is summed up in a few characteristic words of the great Philosopher. "Of possessions," he says, "those rather are useful, which bear fruit; those liberal, which tend to enjoyment. By fruitful, I mean, which yield revenue; by enjoyable, where nothing accrues of consequence beyond the using."”. With this example, Newman is quoting Aristotle, and he is trying to say that, liberal education should be enjoyed. What he means is that, the process of learning through his system should be enjoyed. If learning a subject can be enjoyed then, the individuals who learned that subject can see why the subject is easy to learn by simply learning to take enjoyment of that subject, and the people would have a better understanding within unknown subject areas. By understanding the full scope of what Newman expects from his plan, changes would need to be made in our current United States society if this education system were to be