On the uses of Liberal Education Reading Response

This article is about a man and his wife who decide to have a course for underprivileged people to learn about the humanities and try to earn college credit at the same time. The course started with thirty students and in the end, sixteen students graduated. The students learned about many different things involving art and literature and ethics and reading and English. They visited museums and talked intelligently about things that they saw and experienced. Ten of the students in the course went on to attend four year universities, two of the students got full scholarships to Bard College (the college that they got credit at for taking the course), and two of them were attending community colleges or working full time. Each of the students made a better life for themselves after the course. Most of the students started out homeless and living on the streets or very poor or living in desolate conditions.

I think that the author argued his point rather well. He gave ample evidence for why an education, in particular an education in humanities is important and can help someone along in life. The students in the course ended up going from being homeless and not having a care in the world about education to attending universities and living well educated lives.

I believe that I do agree with the author of this article. I do think that an education in the humanities can help someone have a much better life. I also agree that if someone who has less than great means is given the FREE opportunity to get an education in an unbiased environment they will take it. I think that most people want to be well-educated. People that live on the street and are very poor and uneducated know that if they were to get an education it would help them to have better live and live by much, much better standards. The students that ended up graduating from the course went on to have better lives while attending four year universities.

"A year after graduation, ten of the first sixteen Clement Course graduates were attending four-year colleges or going to nursing school; four of them had received full scholarships to Bard College."
This one line sums up the whole point of the article. This line tells the reader why the author even had the course and why he took the time to write about it. It also explains why he put so much effort into the course because he knew how much it would help the students in achieving a better life for themselves.