Liberal Arts Education: The Essential Foundation for Vocational Education

DOI

10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Liberal arts education, vocational education, purpose of education, positioning

Abstract

While unable to bring direct economic benefit, liberal arts education provides our students much needed value system and guidance in their growth. It must be pointed out that nobody is born with humanistic aptitude, which must be acquired through quality education. Although the purpose of vocational education is to provide professionals with practical skills to the society, overemphasis on the education of skills and neglect of liberal arts education will lead to serious consequence to students’ overall development. This paper argues that in vocational education we should strive to cultivate our students to become a well-rounded person with healthy personality, excellent professional capacity, and ability to deal with the challenge in real world.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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