Misp. # | Description (with brief quote & explanation) | Ungar’s Response (with quote/evidence & explanation) | Connections (to Jeffrey Scheuer or Others) – INCLUDE relevant quote(s) & explanation of relation to Ungar. |
| #1 | Liberal arts are only for the wealthy and that the price for the liber arts has gone up and out of reach. | Ungar”s response is that he understands that people financially are going through a rough time due to the recession. His argument is “Yet one coils argue that the traditional, well-rounded preparation that the liberal arts offer is a better investment that ever – that the future demands of citizenship will require not narrow technical or job-focused training, but rather a subtle understanding of the complex influences that shape the world we know” he stating that liberal arts is a better investment for future jobs b/c its better to be well rounded then only knowledgeable on one topic. | Liberal arts are for everyone, not just wealthy people. “Consisting of stable but implement fields of inquiry that fuse at some points and fissure at others, adapting to cultural shifts while sharing a common language and assumptions, overlapping knowledge bases, and the core of critical thinking” thus shows that liberal arts are for everyone because everyone can participate in liberal arts talks. |
| #2 | Students are not majoring in literature art because they believe that no one will hire them with a liberal art degree | Students believe that having a literature degree means that they will not get hired but Ungar’s rebuttal was “A 2009 survey for the Association of American COlleges and Universities actually found that more than three-quarters of our nation’s employers recommend that college board students pursue a “liberal education “”. He also says that many men working on Wall Street have “philosophy and physics majors” that help them compare literature from all cultures. | “Many students and their parents now seek a clear and early connection between the undergraduate experience and employment” this relates to Ugnar because they both see that people see the liberal arts as an unimportant major in schools. |
| #3 | Low Income and first generation college students do not focus on literature majors due to it not being a practical and marketable for their future | Ungar’s rebuttal is that low income people are not dumber than other social classes, that “it is condescending to imply that thaw who have less cannot understand and appreciate the finer elements of knowledge”. He also talks about how applying with experiences does not mean you are more knowledgeable them other who don’t have the experience | Ugnar talks about how the misconception about liberal arts is that people do not apply due to not being able to pay for it. This goes with students and their parents wanting them to go into supportable majors because there are not alot of jobs with the experience o f liberal arts thus no one would really apply. It’s not based on how much money a person has. |
| #4 | STEM [sciences,technology, engineering, and mathematics], is the only major and subject that should be taught and learned. One should also not just study art as well. | Ungar’s states that “liberal arts encompases the boradest podssible range of disciplines in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. In fact, the historical basis of a liberal education is in the classical artes liberales, comprising the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music)”. He is stating that the liberal arts are not just for literature but it can be applied to all of the STEM subjects. | Liberarl arts teachers, “educators might also ask some more basic questions: what do we mean by the “liberal arts” and why should one study them at all?” Scheuer makes the appointment that teaching liberal arts is for everyone but due to the leak of interest it has been taught easier and less complex to draw people in. |
| #5 | Politics, Democrats have taken over the liberal arts and have created a mess from it. Thus it is futile to teach the next generation liberal thoughts | “Liberal education, as properly defined above, has nothing whatsoever to do with politics” this is right because liberal arts is about inclusivity, hearing all points. It does not focus on a single ideology. | Ugnar’s view of liberal arts are not about politics but are more about inclusivity. It is also about building people to create a citizens culture. “The liberal arts embodyprecicely the skills a democracy must cultivate to maintain its vital reservoir of active, thoughtful, humane, and productive citizens’ ‘ this shows that Schere’s view is that liiberal arts are partially about politics. |
| #6 | America is the only country that focuses on old-fashion ideals thus it is pointless to keep teaching and learning when other countries do not practice it anymore. | “In many places, including Europe, the study of law or medicine often begins directly after high school, without any requirement to complete an undergraduate degree first. We should recognize, however, that a secondary education is some system-say, those that follow the model of the German Gymnasium- often includes much that is left out og the typical high-school curriculum in America”. Other countries have students learn law and medicine as practical future jobs instead of american school. However schools all around the world, CHina have asked American schools about liberal arts in trying to understand education. | America’s not the only country that studied liberal arts “monstatic and cathedral schools of Italy and France, those “arts” were supplements in the curriculum by philosophy, jurisprudence, theology, and medicine” other countries were just as passionate about liberal arts as America is. Both see that liberal arts are not just taught in America but other countries as well . |
| #7 | The cost of liberal arts does not get enough funding to compete with medical, law and other bigger majors. | “Governments at all levels have come nowhere close to supporting colleges in ways that allow them to provide the kinds of access and affordability that’s needed” , the government is supposed to help school fund majors so that students can explore and major in them. However the government lacks the funds to give. Ugnar’s solution is to fund small liberal arts colleges to allow students to get education about liberal arts. | Scheuer says “Jacques Barzan, the renowned scholar and dean at Columbia University pronounced the liberal arts tradition “dead or dying” in1963”. Over the years liberal arts colleges are dying out possible by the lack of funds from the school and government. |
Misconception 2:
The misconception that majoring in the liberal arts means that getting a job after college will be hard to impossible. This is not true because many employers who work have some degree in the liberal arts because it is versatile not just focused about literature but about everyday situations. The loberal arts about making people endangered in culture and being able to ask questions to understand and take part in talking and developing a citizenship culture.
Misconception 4:
You should only study STEM subjects. THis is false due to employers wanting well rounded employees. They don’t really want a single focused student who has to experience other subjects. Sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics all work together along with liberal arts because they take part in everyday situations not just literature. However the lack of interest makes the liberal arts to not be a prominent subject.
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