Philosophy has a unique role to play in any liberal education.
It is a discipline which challenges students both to reflect on their own biases and presuppositions and to put order into their thoughts. Philosophy also teaches the student to criticize the beliefs and presuppositions of other scientific disciplines. The philosopher declares any existing scientific methodology fair game for critical probing. The student of philosophy confronts human values precisely as values. Overspecialization in education dulls the student's sense of possibilities beyond the narrow scope of a limited specialized field.