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Daniel Kontowski on the idea of liberal education, its learning outcomes and the consumerist approach to education.

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'There is the idea that liberal arts education doesn't prepare you just for the next 5-10 years of your life: it prepares you for the whole of your life — learning how to become fulfilled, learning stuff that will make you happy for the longer term, learning things that will be useful for you not for any particular line of engagement but to kind of creating a complete human being. '

Daniel Kontowski, PhD in Higher Education, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen

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