Only Connect…

Within the piece of “Only Connect” by William Cronon, he tries to inform the reader about what he believes a liberal education is and what kind of people that they create as a product of going through a liberal education system. He argues that the liberal education is the best education system as it provides students the opportunity to take classes that prepare them for what they want to do in the future. It gives them the “freedom” to do what they want and progress as a human being in a society that is striving to educate young adults to prepare them for the real world. He uses some citations to help make his piece more credible but while he does this, he also makes the piece persuasive by being so one sided on the part that he only talked about the good things that a liberal education can do for a student and society.

Some things he could do to improve his piece I guess would be to add the other side, or add some negatives about liberal education instead of being so one sided about the argument. He also was a bit hypocritical when creating a list of characteristics that liberally educated students possess after previously writing about how people always make lists about what the education for human freedom looks like.

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