What is a Liberal Education?-Donald Kagan

Throughout Kagans article about what exactly is liberal education, he goes back in history and talks alot about Universities in medieval times and how important people in that era thought Universities and education were. In the middle ages the 7 liberal arts were grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. These are very different to the liberal arts we have today. To the champions of a liberal education, the 4 kinds of goals of it were the achievement of the contemplative life, to shape character, to prepare one for their career, and to let the student have their freedom. All of these goals I believe still hold true in todays Universities because those are the goals many achieve after attending a University.
Kagan wrote on how some who attended a University might sometimes be called Pedants. A pedant is one who is self-absorbed and wasn't into socializing; was obsessed with ones education. This was looked at as wrong by many of the fathers who didn't want their sons working too hard or ruining their social life. This was quite humurous to me because nowadays when one is hard working and stays focused on his studies, he most likely will succeed and his parents will usually be very proud.
The quote "A man of the highest education ought to know something of everything, and everything of something" I believe is very true. If we were to attend college and focus on only our major, we would only be educated on one thing. I do think that a person who knows a little of everything and also a lot of one thing would do better in life than one who only knows a lot of one thing. This quote broadened the field of learning and was known as "universal knowledge".
In conclusion, Kagan talks about how if a college is to offer a liberal education, they should uphold the freedoms that we are entitled to which are the right of free speech, free exchange of ideas, present unpopular points of view, and freedom to move around and use the universities facilities without interference. I believe that Universities should give us these freedoms to some extent. I do not think that speakers whos goal is to start a riot and put others in danger should be able to speak on campus unless they show that none would be harmed in doing so. Liberal Education is important in a university to make people more well rounded and if their career doesnt go the way they planned, they have other subjects from the liberal arts to fall back on