The document discusses the history and components of a liberal arts education. It explains that liberal arts aims to develop general knowledge and intellectual skills, unlike vocational programs. The first liberal arts schools were started by Socrates and Plato in ancient Greece. The original liberal arts curriculum consisted of the trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic and the quadrivium of arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry. These areas evolved into the modern disciplines of the humanities, sciences, mathematics, and social sciences.

1. A Brief Summary

2.  The term liberal arts denotes a
curriculum that imparts general
knowledge and develops the
student’s rational thought and
intellectual capabilities, unlike
the professional, vocational
and technical curricula
emphasizing specialization. The
contemporary liberal arts
comprise studying literature,
languages, philosophy, history,
mathematics, and science.

3.  The first school “established”
for the liberal arts were based
off of the Philosopher Socrates,
teacher of Plato, who would just
gather with his students and
recite information/Philosophy
as they walked.
 Plato established the first school
of Academia.

4.  Philosophy is the study of
general and fundamental
problems, such as existence,
knowledge, values, reason,
mind, and language. It is
distinguished from other ways
of addressing such problems by
its critical, generally systematic
approach and its reliance on
rational argument. The word
"philosophy" comes from the
Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia),
which literally means "love of
wisdom", and was originally a
word referring to the special
way of life of early Greek
philosophers.

5. The Trivium
 grammer
 rhetoric
 logic
the Quadrivium
 arithmetic
 astronomy
 music
 geometry

6.  The Trivium has
translated into the
Humanities.
 1.Theology
 2.Philosophy
 3.Fine Arts
 4.Literature/Language
 5.History
 6.Others

7.  The Quadrivium
has translated into
The Sciences and
Mathmatics.  1.Physics
 2.Chemistry
 3.Biology
 4.Algebra
 5.Calculus
 6.Others

8.  The Social Sciences are the
end result.
 1.Economics
 2.Sociology
 3.Psychology
 4.Education
 5.Sociobiology
 6.Others