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Unleash the Magic of your Liberal Self and Let your own World grow from the Inside Out! Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you could bridge the gap between who you are now and who you might be tomorrow? Blinded by the outer light, the well-preserved secret of your inner…
“I’m not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science – and then learn to write.” ~ Tom Brokaw We essentially exist in relation to the tools that surround us. The blurring of the border between technical and…
Instead of practicing interdisciplinarity amongst similar disciplines, moving across diverging disciplines is more necessary given the needs of our times. Only a liberal arts foundation can nurture such a transdisciplinary attitude. Academia is a strange world in the way it ushers in change while treasuring the virtue of continuity. On one hand, disciplines are defined…
Let’s begin at the beginning! To understand the role of the Liberal Arts teacher in an age otherwise arraigned illiberal, we must go down the lanes of classic Greek philosophy. During the second half of the fifth century B.C., in Greece, we saw the rise of a group of tutors for the aristocrats and…
The Classical conception of liberal education and teaching methods were born when Aristotle divided knowledge into disciplines in ancient Greece. He believed, rhetoric, grammar, and logic were the practical and crucial segments of a liberal education. Since Plato’s day, the liberal curriculum has evolved significantly in terms of content. It includes a study to create…
The concept of liberal arts is a broad concept and has various dimensions. Multidisciplinary study has been given vital importance in liberal arts education. Liberal arts is a field of study based on rational thinking and it includes the areas of humanities, social and physical sciences and mathematics. A liberal arts degree includes the study…
In the 21st century, we all are surrounded by communication devices and the world today is unthinkable without them. But just go two centuries back, even a century back, a few decades back in remote areas and communication devices were obscure, if not absent completely. Thus, beyond doubt the invention of radio and other communication…
True to the organic nature of life itself, a transdisciplinary education in liberal arts seeks to dissolve the interdisciplinary boundaries and equips its pupils with an eye for discerning intersectionality and interconnections as a template for learning for life and learning from life. Sociology, as one of the disciplines offered as a major in a…
When James Watson and Francis Crick jointly received their Nobel in 1962 for their 1953-determination of the double helical structure of the DNA, other significant scientists who also aided in this discovery were left out (ever heard of Rosalind Franklin in this context as much as you may be aware of Watson and Crick?) In…
ESSENCE OF LIBERAL ARTS “This is the best reason to learn history not to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course, this is not total freedom we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.” Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus …
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