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the education for people who refuse to be trained for just one job.
means a course of study covering literature, philosophy, history, math, and science meant to build broad reasoning skills rather than a specific trade.
from from latin artes liberales, the arts befitting a free person (liber), as opposed to servile arts taught to slaves and laborers in ancient rome; the medieval trivium and quadrivium formalized it into seven subjects.
original sevengrammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy
not about artliberal here means freedom, not painting
rome's divideservile arts trained slaves, liberal arts trained citizens
modern ironyoften mocked as impractical, employers keep hiring it anyway