{"id":30,"date":"2015-08-08T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:13:36","slug":"just-what-are-the-liberal-arts-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2015\/08\/08\/just-what-are-the-liberal-arts-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Just What Are the Liberal Arts Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #999999\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, as parents send their kids off to college this fall, and those same kids try to figure out what they want to study, and as those of us who teach in liberal arts institutions begin talking to those students about the purpose and meaning of the educations they are about to embark upon, we should all keep in mind what our ultimate aims are. It is not vocation training. It is brain-training. 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