[lit-ideas] Re: education
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:08:14 -0700
Ursula wrote
Well...in our little college in Northern Ontario, the liberal arts
have to be argued for almost every year. There's very little support
for programs that can't find connections with or support from the
mercantile/industrial world outside our doors (of very little
perception...).
That said, we do have some amazing students who very much do want a
liberal arts education. They didn't always know that coming in...but
things turn them on.
*http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/26/business/philosophers-find-the-degree-pays-off-in-life-and-in-work.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
*It's sad that studying the liberal arts (as opposed to e.g.
engineering) has to be somehow justified in terms of what it will 'get
you' after graduation. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there
was the non-mysterious notion of studying something for its own sake.
Hélas.*
*Robert Paul*
*
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