3. • Liberal arts material was important
to teacher education
• Students have rights to a well-
educated and culturally
knowledgeable teacher
• Importance of teacher
• Importance of accuracy
4. • Aims to instill students with the
“essentials” of academic
knowledge
Reading, writing, literature, history,
Mathematics, science, arts, and music.
5. • Students are required to master a
set of body of information and
basic techniques for their grade
level before they are promoted to
a higher level.
* Grade one before grade two, English 1
before English 2, etc.
6. • For the students to acquire basic
knowledge, skills, and values
• To hopefully transmit the traditional moral
values and intellectual knowledge that
students need to become model citizens.