Question

In a well-considered essay, examine this claim made below by A. Bartlett Giamatti. Evaluate its compatibility with your own views regarding the proper goals and aims of a college education. Justify your answer with experiences from your own life, pertinent texts, historical figures, and contemporary events.
Mr. Giamatti says the following about liberal education:

There can be no more practical education, in my opinion, than one that launches you on the course of fulfilling your human capacities to reason and to imagine freely and that hones your abilities to express the results of your thinking in speech and in writing with logic, clarity, and grace. --A. Bartlett Giamatti

Answer 1

In short, Giamatti argues that higher education should be one that allows students to evolve their mental capacity and be able to reason effectively based on real data and information. Once education is able to create students with these skills, these students will have sufficient intellectual maturity that will be reflected in their professional skills and this will form citizens ready for the job market that will be efficiently managed generating benefits for Brazil.

Giamatti's thinking is consistent with the society we live in now and how that society influences higher education. University students must be intellectually stimulated and develop a logical and quick ratio that keeps them away from the habit of decorating concepts and information inconsistent with the century in which we live.

This is because we live in a capitalist and globalized society, where everything happens quickly and spreads easily to the whole world, creating the need for extremely proactive and professional professionals, less attached to concepts and more attached to practice and correct thinking.