Liberal Arts Education

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Liberal Arts Education

• Kentaro Toyama
• Microsoft Research India

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A little history
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Pythagoras (569-475 BC)
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Artes quibus liberales doctrinae atque ingenuae
continentur geometria, litterarum cognito et
poetarum, atque illa quae de naturis rerum, quae
de hominum moribus, quae de rebus publicis
dicuntur. -- Cicero (c. 106-43 BC)
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• Arts
• grammar
• rhetoric
• dialectic (logic)
• Disciplines
• arithmetic
• geometry
• music
• astronomy

Cassiodorus (490-583)
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• Trivium
• grammar
• rhetoric
• dialectic
• Quadrivium
• arithmetic
• geometry
• music
• astronomy

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
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the conquest of self and the regulation of one's
life in such a way that no decision is made
under the influence of any inordinate
attachment -- St. Ignatius of Loyola
(1491-1556)
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Why liberal arts?
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Liberal Arts Education
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Photo Hector U. Velazquez
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Thank you!