Proof that if you can dream it, you can be it.
Girl knows how to tell a joke, huh? She learn that in college, ya think?
Humans are the only species with a capacity for mysticism. There is a craving in man that goes beyond robotics, political correctness and the herd. Eventually the neo dark age where free speech and “offensive thoughts” are suppressed at educational institutions will pass. History has shown that however brutal the suppression, be it communist rule or cultural censors, free thinkers emerge, the demand for freedom asserts itself and things change often for the better. Take heart philosophy majors. The demand for your services and teaching will return. Yes they had it right at Faber College “Knowledge is good”.
I can get plenty of history, languages, etc. off the Internet. Pretty hard to learn the hard sciences all by your lonesome when the job suddenly calls for it.
“A liberal arts education teaches students to learn how to learn, and inspires them to go on learning throughout their lives.”
That is what it was intended to do, but that is no longer what it does. It functions as the indoctrination academy. Learning that there are other philosophies than your own does not in today’s academia mean merely respecting their existence, it means denying your own and ACCEPTING any but your own. By preaching that all systems are equally valid, equally moral, equally worth emulating, they preach the destruction of yours with an easily manipulated nothingness that has no moral home beyond the indoctrinated thought lines impressed on the mind as truth, not acquired by one’s own experience.
The author doesn’t conflate much, does she? If I needed a full degree in every area that touches upon my daily work, I’d have to go to school until I retired. Courses in philosophy, English, Math, etc are not the same as degrees. One can still take courses focused on those subjects, as it may relate to their degree. They do not need to have a freaking degree in the same subject.
It all depends upon what you want. Some people have a great life rising maybe one or two layers in an organization while others aspire to enter the upper eschelon. Some people would rather die than work for someone else and others thrive in corporate setting.
The fallacy is that we need a once-size-fits-all (or worse yet, a government-mandated) path to education. Or course specialization is needed in many cases....I hope my cardiologist has more than an MBA, and I hope my tax lawyer didn't cut people open for a living at the Mayo Clinic. That said, not everyone benefits from a Liberal Arts education and not all Business School graduates are Gordon Gekko.
My favorite opinion in this sort of matter comes from Frank Zappa: I don't give musicians a "questionnaire" when they join the band about where they went to school or about what sort of technical information they possess - I'll hear during the audition whether they can play or not.
Well, I only read about half of this, but I could tell I disagree. You can learn history, philosophy, and what-all on the internet. We don’t need anymore Starbucks coffee-pullers with $70,000 student loans and a brain washed of anything but socialism.
The art history and the theater majors put on their waitstaff aprons while the womyns studies major heads to the back to wash the dishes.
Between them they have over a quarter million dollars in student debt and these are the only jobs they are qualified for.
Deep envy boils in their hearts as they observe the smiling faces of the bartender (a few courses in Culinary Arts) and the owner (business AA from local community collage).
It just was not fair that some people got all the breaks.
How desparet is the Sierera Vista Herald to publish this garbage article?