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To: SeekAndFind

When they stop charging $50,000 for $5,000 worth of general information education they might stay in business. 4 years of extended high school is basically worthless. Liberal arts type “education” scould be scrapped and only courses which lead to professional type knowledge necessary for a career should be continued. Mgmt, law, medicine,aviation technology, economics,physics, political science, O.K.....womans studies, basket weaving,most social sciences, not so much...


18 posted on 03/04/2015 8:51:14 AM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails overall)
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To: terycarl

Sadly, there is a misuse of “liberal education.” Women’s Studies, social sciences, etc., is liberal, but it’s a crappy liberal education.

A real liberal education should be applicable to most professional endeavors: logic and epistemology, math, natural science, language, rhetoric, foundations of civilization, etc. You don’t learn any of that as a Women’s studies major. The only relation to “liberal education” is that it’s an offshoot of “humanities.”


23 posted on 03/04/2015 9:45:57 AM PST by dangus
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