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Liberal education


Authorities are directing the focus of education in indirectly diminish individuality. As Tocqueville states, "if institutions allowed individualism it would only dam the spring of public virtues, and in the long run attack and destroy all others too and merge into egoism." I feel that the universities have indirectly accepted this contradictory goal. Thus, the hope for true specialization and faculty of self-worship grows less and less as the forces of liberal education sets in throughout our higher education systems. .
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             Instead of an individualized and isolated course of study, systems are now advocating standardized liberal studies, to obtain the concept, as Toqueville described as, "public virtue". A peaceful and orderly conglomerate of students promoted to coexist amongst diverse people, abilities, and interests, a forced cognizance and response to these people and development of community values, and possession of knowledge and comprehension. I say that they are mistaken about their created ideal to implement on all students; it is an illusion, not a benefactor. .
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             The stagnant level of "general knowledge" in response to every type of person and situation that is meant to egalitize people, turns out to mainstream students into a reign of mediocrity which is against a life that should be a process of confidence and self sustainment. A liberal education becomes a magnanimity of false intelligence with a clouded sense of value and subject learning that compensates for a lack of achievement or pursuit of achievement in an isolated study that should reflect one's deepest values. .
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             A student must be allowed this pursuit and choice of their own goals which are the necessary foundation of self worth so they can enjoy and exercise value in life to the fullest potential. One of the important factors in one's own self-esteem is productive work of the mind to create a sense that life is worth living, worth struggling to achieve, maintaining, an incentive to continue studying and striving with direct experience to ones own efficacy, and competence to deal with facts within one's own reality of a field and people related and synergetic within a sub-community.


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