making technical education liberal

Abstract

In Longmans' English Larousse a liberal education is defined as one ‘involving a general enlarging of the mind beyond the merely professional or technical’ — a very praiseworthy concept. How comes it then, that this word ‘liberal’ has for at least one and a half centuries made schooling boring or even nauseating for a large proportion of adolescents?

Citation

DOBINSON, C. (1979), "making technical education liberal", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003722