PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Liberal Education, Inductive Reasoning, Existentialism
28 Oct 2020
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Man is a rational being, this capacity should be developed in every human being capable of thinking, evaluating, and making judgements. Human personality should develop freely guided by reason rather than limited by artificially constraints (superstitions, dogmas). Liberal education is a process of freeing or liberating the mind from error. Education aims ultimately to enable an individual to make free choices rather than to follow what is considered to be correct without understanding it. Knowledge is a good for its own sake. Blydel (in akinpelu, 1981) asserts that liberal education"s main feature is integration. The curriculum is therefore a coverage of wide range of types of knowledge as blydel (in. Akinpelu 1981:98) reveals it is our desire and purpose to teach not so much knowledge of useful things as useful knowledge . The man so educated should be free or liberated from ignorance.
