[lit-ideas] Re: education
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:31:10 -0700
Andy wrote
A major thing, probably the major thing, that drives most people today
is money, how to get more of everything.
And this is known how?
Liberal arts is not conducive to that. Wall Street was such a big
draw until the crash that there was a visible drain in the sciences,
and the slack was picked up by foreign students.
Again, how did you find this out? Are you counting the 'hard sciences'
as part of the liberal arts? (You should, but the sciences do not
exhaust what constitute the liberal arts.) I really don't follow your
reasoning here.
That 'businesses' don't want liberal arts majors is simply false. If you
don't believe this, perhaps you could let us know why you don't.
Generally speaking, outside the world of technology, a liberal arts
major has more skills, everything else being equal, than e.g. someone
majoring in a narrowly professional field, and what employers want are
graduates can learn more than one way of doing things, rather than those
who are trained to do just one thing in a field in which there's rapid
change.
You might want to look at this from the NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/26/business/philosophers-find-the-degree-pays-off-in-life-and-in-work.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
or this from the Vanderbilt department of economics.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/undergraduate/mba.html
Robert Paul
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