Fleiner 1 John Fleiner English 250 PG Lindsay DAndrea 29 January 2014 Are Colleges at Risk with Liberal Education?

In his article College at Risk, Andrew Delbanco discusses how liberal education the empowerment of individuals to discover in American colleges came to be, but the forces of wealth and opportunity, reformation in education, and emphasis on incapable educational measures threaten its endurance. Delbanco historically narrates how the origin of college arose in ancient Greece and Rome when young men began attending lectures and student gatherings. This concept revolutionized into a unique American college system; a system which entails the hope of increased inclusion of women, minorities, and students of low-income families. The system is based on the cardinal American principle that everyone has a right to pursue happiness. Delbanco warns that in todays essence, education is becoming unaffordable for all but the wealthy. Reformations of cost deduction impose adaptation to larger sized classrooms (high student faculty ratio) and technological strategies for presenting information which impend exclusion to liberal practices. Liberal practices such as lateral learning cultural exchange between students and small, engaging classroom discussions are slowly fading away. Delbanco further states that the emerging acclimation of standardized tests to evaluate student knowledge is unable to measure the qualities of a true liberal education. The American college has always sought to prepare students for more than pecuniary advantage over the unprepared, but is facing an era of rapid change and students are being deprived of their liberal thinking

Fleiner 2 (226). Sustaining college as a place for liberal learning will prevent the tradition of education from becoming a thing of the past.

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