Quite clearly, the early Renaissance humanist fascination with the classics was reflected in the educational values and goals of that time. ... As the Renaissance era progressed, the educational system gradually transformed from placing an emphasis on becoming learned to placing an emphasis on learning practical knowledge. ... Vives acknowledges this narrow minded view when he wrote that some people believe that women should not be educated because "learning is a nourishment for the maliciousness of their nature." ... Ultimately, the main goal of a Renaissance education became to attain ...

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Among the students who are rationally motivated, their love and passion for their potential careers and goals in life are divorced by the standards of a liberal education where forced, accidental, and blind themes prevail. ... It is not a useful process of learning without reference to theories and problems in a choice of one's major and I mean destructive in that Liberal education does not affirm intellectual growth nor provide the personal profit or self worship. ... I feel that the universities have indirectly accepted this contradictory goal. ... A student must be allowed this pursui...

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