Liberal Art Research Paper

The Importance of Liberal Art
Before the 1960’s, the laws and the civil right of many minority groups in the United States was very different from what we have today. There were many regulations that restricted the minorities from receiving equal treatment as the white people. Segregation played a major role to undermine and pressure the minorities from standing up for what they believed was right. In the 1950, when African-American families, who sought better environmental conditions, moved to Chicago to live in Berwyn and Cicero, they were attacked by mobs where the polices played a major role. African-American houses were burned and most of oppressed faced terror through physical abuse that sometimes resulted in death. Still, after all

However, later in the years, there was a rise in educated black people, who were able to become great leaders and give the oppressed the voice they longed for. These great leaders used liberal art as a weapon to empower the minorities and persuade the oppressors. To them, liberal art was not something they were born with, but something they had to work hard to learn. It is because of liberal art that minorities were able to accomplish the Civil Right Act in 1964. In our time period, however, liberal arts is viewed insignificant. Many schools do not comprehend the effects of liberal arts on an individual’s life and in a community mostly because they concentrate mainly on the contemporary technologies and science. They fail to understand that, what enables technologies, science, politics and economics to progress is liberal art itself. It is for this reason that I strongly believe that college and university academies should center and invest on liberal art to

Now a days, it is commonly believed that college goals are to mainly teach and educate students to have a better job and a better future. However, that shouldn’t be the sole purpose of what college have to offer. William Cronan points out in one of his arguments that, liberal arts “is a way of living in the face of our own ignorance, a way of groping toward wisdom in full recognition of our own folly. A way of educating ourselves without any illusion that out education will ever be complete.” He states out that becoming a liberal educated person doesn’t necessarily have to do with what you are graded on or something that you can achieve. It centers around the our ability to communicate and learn from the people around us. Listening and respecting different perspectives and ideals “to educate ourselves by knowing opposite lives” (Andrew Delbanco, p. 104). As a freshmen, I can honestly say that I come bearing many life concerning questions seeking answers. However, they are not things that I would want teachers to give answers to. Rather, they are thing I would want to experience and find my own solution to. By becoming socially active and communicating with other people, I would be aware of things I did know and have a border mindset open to new information. I believe this is the significance of literal art; a way for student to learn from each other to better understand how