The passage “only connect” William Cronon argues that people’s perception of liberal education is skewed and he tells the reader what he believes a liberal arts education to be. He credits the action of telling students what classes they need become liberate. Cronon doesn’t think telling people the classes they should take and the order they should take them is how to get people to be more liberate. There are some parts of his argument that i find intriguing when he talks about the roots of the word “liberal” in different ancient languages, he talks about the  greek, latin and old english. Being a liberal arts student you would think i did more research on what the word liberal means, unfortunately that isn’t true. I never looked deeper into what it meant to go to a “liberal arts” school i figured a degree was a degree no matter where you got it from, but going to a Liberal arts school the education goes so much deeper than just a degree. But, unless the author can give a better idea than a “list” i disagree with him.