of such teachings. While manual workers in ancient Greece had little time outside of work for social pursuits, even the most menial workers today have sufficient free time to enjoy a social life, and thus it would seem prudent to give them a more liberal education so that they can enjoy their leisure to the fullest.
Quotes Brubacher, A...the rational life may thus be said to be one of seeing, beholding, and contemplating...@ This suggests that a liberal education is desirable for everyone. Brubacher believes that throughout the ages, and from one race to another, human nature is essentially rational, and the A...notion of educating a person to live in some particular time or place, to adjust him to some particular environment, is therefore foreign to a true conception of a liberal ed
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