Liberal Education
After reading Mark Edmundson’s piece, “On the Uses of a Liberal Education,” I have arrived at the conclusion that he is somewhat of an extremist. Although he makes many valid points and states them in a most erudite manner, he crosses what I consider to be a fine line between making a valid point and extending that point to an extreme from which there seems to be no return. Right off the bat, Edmundson gives away some of his inner feelings about his students and give us a peak into his extremist mentality. He begins to make his point about commercialization of universities by describing a situation in which “[the students] are toiling away like the devil’s auditors” (Edmundson, 96). Mr. Edmundson continues to make his point by calling the students “informed consumers” (Edmundson, 96), and inferring that they are acting exactly like consumers in a natural economy. Although this inference has some validity to it, I most certainly disagree with it, and will attempt to explain why I feel this way. Edmundson complains that the students do not really pay attention in class and are interested only in the “…affability and the one-liners…” (Edmundson, 97). This assumption is based solely on interpretation of the s
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Approximate Word count = 896
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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