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Core Functions: The Center of Liberating Education
Abstract
This chapter presents three main functions of a core curriculum as articulated by a variety of ancients, moderns, and contemporaries in order to open a conversation on the function of general education in today's U.S. colleges and universities. There are three main core functions: to provide an education with a reputation of being for the upper class, to provide the skills of reasoning (quantitative, qualitative, empirical, and logical) and the skills of communication (rhetoric, artistic expression, grammar, and dialogue) that allow a student to integrate knowledge and participate at the highest level of leadership in society, and to provide an entry into the pleasurable world of ideas. Today, there also appears a need for specific emphasis on using the core intentionally to invite students into the class of free citizens by building a community for them there, creating spaces for healing, and establishing hope in conciliatory dialogue.
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