A Liberal Arts Education

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foundation, great thinkers can build and
expand from what others have learned rather than wasting time and effort on what
has already been discovered. While it is true that the factual information
about each subject is very important, the most useful tool liberal arts students
can possess is the knowledge of the strengths and capabilities of each
individual field, as well as the weaknesses and restrictions. With this
knowledge, the students can mesh attributes of different subjects to formulate
new and more brilliant concepts; the brilliance being a function of the
strengths and compatibility of the chosen subjects. As in mixing colors, a new
color can only be created by mixing different colors. The brilliance of this
new color depends on the shades and hues of the colors used to create it. The
same is true for education. The resulting idea or innovation is a function of
the aptness and compatibility of the subjects meshed to create it. For example,
the invention of the ...

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education and every branch stems from the same tree. Some branches
diverge and have twigs and branches of their own, but everything is joined at
the root. Education is very similar because each branch of knowledge relies on
the other in order to advance. For example, science relies on language to
document and publish experimental results. If these findings are published
inaccurately, other scientists who use these publications in their own research
will be misinformed. Each subject relies on another in some way. It is easier
to understand each branch of the tree better if you can see how it is involved
universally: where it stemmed from, and how it is dependent upon other ...

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