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In Reply to: The Legacy of Liberal Education posted by Julie Hoffer on January 25, 1999 at 16:45:48:

I hate to criticize our generation, but the liberal education we receive at UMD, or any college for that matter, is nowhere near anything that we can compare to the Reaissance scholars. We may have taken a lot of clases and such, but they just scratch the surface of these topics, and we normally don't go in depth with the, unless it is for our major. We do in fact have a wide range of classes here, but just because we all took pyschology, sociology, public speaking, economics and a few others does not make us contemporary Renaissance people, I'm afraid. I guess you could conclude that studying all of the things we do makes us scholars, because that's pretty much what we are, for now. However, the ideal Renaissance person, as we discussed before, was a scholar, an artist, an architect, an inventor, and creative beyond the understanding of many of us, including myself. We should be proud for what we've accomplished here in college, because being a scholar or a student is difficult enough in itself, but for now we should take our 19 or 20 year old minds off being compared to the incredibly diversely skilled people of the Renaissance era.

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