What was it about liberal education that was so life-changing? I learned to think. That sounds a bit trite. Surely, working as a legal professional, I knew how to analyze and process information. But this class on liberal education became the place to reflect more deeply about questions of mean-ing and purpose, understand how people in the past had encountered big questions, and think with these important figures.

Course learning becomes not just something to be learned, repeated in a test, but can be applied to our experiences, both profession-ally and personally.