On the importance of safeguarding the Truth in pedagogical systems. C. S. Lewis and David Foster Wallace concerning "Liberal education ¿ remaining within the Tao"

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2019 in the subject Pedagogy - General, , course: Liberal Arts, Writing and Rhetoric, language: English, abstract: Liberal Education is a pedagogical system that aims at cultivating a free human being, homini libera. It is usually based on the medieval concept of the artes liberales that offer a grounding formation and solid basis for postgraduate education. It is commonly accepted that Liberal Education is truly an education for its own sake ¿ excluding any consideration of utility, personal gain and future profession. As we can deduct from the word alone, there must be something that sets us free. This something (someone) is the Truth itself (himself); with a capital T. Prior to this, however, if anything (anyone) is to set us free, we have to acknowledge the existence of (this) objective reality before it (he) can do so. At the core of Liberal Education stands thus the Truth. The Truth about the physical and metaphysical, the unmoved and the moving, the temporal and the eternal. A denial of the Truth (THE nut) then, in a nutshell, makes Liberal Education into a nutshell ¿ lacking its essence, purpose, meaning and heart.