Over the past few weeks we have read articles focused on the Liberal Arts. Jeffrey Scheuer and Sanford Ungar, two authors from these articles each offered their views on the liberal arts and where this education stands for today’s students. Beginning with Ungar he begins to explain that the liberal arts and its entire system is so much more complex than it seems to be dodging the misconceptions it seems to have surrounding it, “It promotes the idea of listening to all points of view and not relying on a single ideology, and examining all approaches to solving a problem rather than assuming that one technique or perspective has all the answers,”  (Ungar, Para 14) as well as possibly being “described as a conservative approach to preparation for life.” “thinking independently, an almost self-evident intellectual virtue but a vague one (and no mind is an island); thinking outside the box (likewise crucial but unspecific); grasping the different forms and divisions of knowledge and how they are acquired (but the forms of knowledge and ways of acquiring them evolve); seeing distinctions and connections beyond the obvious; distinguishing reality from appearance; and engaging with complexity, but not for its own sake..In the end, critical inquiry is not a map or a list of firm rules but a set of navigational skills.” ” The “Core Handbook”, even though it gives more of a solid definition than an actual explanation introduces the CAS core values as well as the general curriculum required of all students in the college. Scheuer, Ungar, and the Handbook fall hand in hand and open up a space so that the liberal arts can be made sense of. Personally prior to these articles and currently, I believe that the Liberal Arts are an extremely important part of today’s higher education. The views of the liberal arts that our society currently has is pretty negative. Most people believe or are convinced to believe that we should follow the STEM route without realizing that these two can work in perfect harmony and there is space for them to do so. I agree with Ungar and Scheuer more than the handbook because they go more into depth about what the Liberal Arts truly means and do an excellent job at defending their points of view.