A liberal education is defined as an education where the emphasis is primarily on the liberal arts. A liberal arts education emphasizes the development of intellectual abilities as oppose to the acquisition of professional skills. When students pursue a liberal arts education; some of the classes that they take may not directly correlate to their chosen major. For instance, a biology major student may take a Shakespeare class or an American Early Literature class. The primary concept for a student who is considering pursuing a liberal arts education is so that the student is viewed as being “well-rounded”. Historically, liberal arts studies consisted of both trivium and quadrivium subjects. The trivium liberal arts studies included grammar, logic and rhetoric. The quadrivium liberal arts studies included music, astronomy, arithmetic and geometry.
With the economy the way it is today, there is much more pressure for students to get a good education and be able to have a successful career. Students across the country have a few different types of high schools that they can choose to attend, including vocational and liberal arts. A vocational school focuses on training for a specific job, while liberal arts schools teach general information about many different subjects. Both liberal arts schools and vocational schools are a better fit for different types of people, but a high school that emphasizes liberal arts would better prepare students for a global economy because it teaches skills that are valuable in any career; it makes graduates more desirable to some employers and helps students to find a career that would suit them best.
In Ancient Egypt, education was key to the advancement of civilizations in the Egyptian culture. According to the culture most of the success was based on the divine guidance, wisdom and skills one could possess from as young as 4-5 years old. Egyptian history marked the means to attain knowledge by being home schooled and in temple...