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(PDF) Higher education in the light of Humanities.

Higher education in the light of Humanities.

2019, Kashmir Reader

A more spiritual and mystical construal or version of the development of the personality of the individual came as an outcome of socio-political advancements, with the result, liberal education came into being which garnished the notions of education in general and higher education in particular. In the Greek-Roman periods, the education of the able, at liberty, or open man was considered liberal education as juxtaposed to the slave or the craftsperson who serve the world empowering the free intellectuals, the upper class, and aristocracies to dedicate their leisureliness for the growth and development of their cognizance and intelligence. By looking at the feudal social setup of Medieval Europe, we find that the liberal education at the tertiary or higher level consisted of the learning of grammar, language rules, sentence structure, logic, reasoning, and magniloquence or rhetoric, mathematics, particularly arithmetic and geometry, astrophysics, and music. In light of this liberal view of education, we can discover the perception of higher education as a path of learning; the resourceful and innovative practice cum consumption of free time or leisureliness reasonably different from merely providing an approach and way to make a living or improve the standard of living and to develop a responsible citizen (eGyanKosh., 2018).