Gitlin offers several reasons for the importance of the liberal arts. what are they? why does he present them in the order that he does?

According to him, the importances of liberal arts are:

- teach learners about their history, their social condition, themselves.

- Expose learners to orientation on philosophy, history, language, literature, music and arts

- Too much information today is piling up

The order is based on where the conjunction of information in the society currently exist, because now many media exist and spouting many different informations that serve their own agenda.