Kagan-What is a Liberal Education?

I agree very much with Kagan for the most part and had a very similar perspective with Newman. I agree in the sense that he believes a liberal education is a little bit of everything and it is a necessity to be effective in the social world and to make any kind of impact in the community you must know how to go about doing it. In earlier times a liberal education was not only a variety in knowledge but it was a tool to find truth, which was very much tied into religion, which also focused on values. However, he states that now, since the university and students are so diverse, sometimes these values are forgotten.

Kagan also implies that a liberal education is supposed to free your mind, challenge your set beliefs without compromising your morals, understand these beliefs, and make a change within yourself. He gives the impression that you can go to college to gain mastery in your feild but at the same time gain some type of background on various subjects, concepts, in order to relate to people and communicate with them. "Most important of all, we must provide our children with an education shaped by the purpose of creating citizens of a free society who will love liberty, who will understan discipline and sacrifice needed to preserve it, and who will be eager to do so". This quote sums up most of it, saying that for future generations beginninig now we have to maintain a productive, caring, educated, and prosperous society we must revisit what are morals are as well as what our goals are.