"In the nineteenth century, Emerson urged students to 'resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism.' He emphasized that a true education would help one find one's own way by expanding one's world, not narrowing it: notice everything but imitate nothing, he urged. The goal of this cultivated attentiveness is not to discover some ultimate Truth, but neither is it just to prepare for the worst job one is likely to ever have, one's first job after graduation."
In The New Republic, Michael S. Roth seeks to define "the goal of liberal education."
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