Danielle Allen Argumentative Map (Joshua Nesheiwat) by Joshua Nesheiwat

Is Liberal Arts important in education, and fixing the inequality gap?

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

Yes!

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

Liberal Arts and it's extracurriculars should be considered when discussing education. To add on, it's beneficial towards rectifying inequality within the nation.

No!

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

No, Liberal Arts is not as important in comparison to subjects such as math, and science. Inequality cannot be fixed by liberal art classes

Fixing Inequality

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

Equality will be obtained through knowledge. Education can affect equality by the information that others can receive and what they allow themselves to do with it.

"Thus an education focused not merely on technical skills,
but also on what I call participatory readiness, provides
a distinct and better way to promote equality through
schooling"(pg. 9).

Improvement in Society

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

This can help society as a whole by educating the future generation concerning their rights, and the responsibilities they carry to understand political, governance processes that they can participate in.

“If a government fails in its core purposes, it is the job of the citizen to figure this out and decide how to change direction”(Allen, pg.12).

Math and Science are more important

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

Science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine have impacted society and history more than liberal arts could.

"Science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine have done much to create the contemporary condition. Thanks to the industrial, aeronautical, biomedical, and digital revolutions, the world’s population has grown from one

to seven billion in little more than 200 years, a profound historical transformation."pg.12

Fixing Inequality

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

equality will be obtained through the change of government policies

“Achieving an economy with more egalitarian outcomes will require different political choices and economic policies. It will require that we choose different rules to govern labor, housing, and financial markets”(Allen, pg. 9).

Rebuttal

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

Liberal Arts has made a big impact in history as well. The formation of democracy, and creation of empires throughout the world have been build on a basis of ideologies, philosophy, and literature. It has influenced multiple political figures, enlightenment movements and even revolutions.

"But if the STEM fields gave us the mass in “mass democracy,’ ’the humanities and social sciences gave us the democracy. The Europeans and American colonists who designed systems of representative democracy capable of achieving continental scale—while employing genocidal techniques in the process—were broadly and deeply educated in history, geography, philosophy, literature, and art."(Pg. 12)

Consensus

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

Therefore education can gradually resolve the major issue that is inequality that plagues our nation. To add on, liberal arts is as equally important as math, science, engineering, technology, and medicine.

Rebuttal

ooa69 — 2025-02-20 22:50:56 UTC

Usually the inequality gap derives from the amount of education that is received. It proceeds to bleed into job occupations, and it's incomes.

"Historical experience suggests that the principal mechanism for convergence [of incomes and wealth] at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion
of knowledge. In other words, the poor catch up with the rich to the extent that they achieve the same level of technological know-how, skill, and education."(pg. 10)