| NSM 21 - Becoming an Educated Person (Savage Earth) | ||||
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This assignment will be graded on a 10 point scale. Be sure to answer all the questions completely.
All the reading for this assignment is in the book (Foundations):
Jones, Thomas B., The Educated Person, p. 26
Boyer, Ernst, Two Essential Goals, p. 29
Bowen, The Baccalaureate Degree: What Does it Mean? What Should it Mean? p. 32
Between this week and last, you have read six authors' views of the role of higher education and the meaning of being an educated person. By the end of the semester, you will write an essay addressing the prompt you find here.
For this assignment, you will outline (just an outline, no essay yet) a response to the first part of the prompt:
Several of the readings that we have discussed from your textbook offer ideas about why a college education is important for you individually and for society (see Halverson, Gardner, Cicarelli, Jones, Boyer, Bowen).
Write a 3 – 4 page typed, double-spaced essay in which you briefly explain [about 1 page]
(1) why three of these authors say getting a college education is important for you as an individual student, and
(2) why three of these authors say getting a college education is important for a democratic society.
(Be sure to correctly cite the authors in your summary.)