Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: enotheisen

You are living in the 50s mentally if you think a liberal arts degree today provides an understanding of humanity. I have a Ph.D in a liberal art, and I’ve watched what has happen to the liberal arts in the universities since 1970. With the exception of a handful of schools, what passes for the liberal arts in contemporary universities should be avoided. Those programs represent NEGATIVE value added.


7 posted on 11/06/2015 8:14:31 PM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]


To: achilles2000

I remember a letter to the editor of the Dallas Morning News in 1969 from a North Texas State graduate with a bachelor’s in history. He was angry that not only could he not get a job with his degree but the school hadn’t even taught him how to type. Plus ca change...


11 posted on 11/06/2015 8:25:16 PM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

To: achilles2000

Depends on the school. Depends on the program.


14 posted on 11/06/2015 8:39:53 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no rmal, unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

To: achilles2000

“I have watched what has happened to the liberal arts in the universities since 1970. ...Those programs represent NEGATIVE value added.”

Maybe that is a factor in this phenomena - the job applicants from these re-education camps come in parroting slogans that make practical employers recoil in horror.


16 posted on 11/06/2015 8:43:30 PM PST by BeauBo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

To: achilles2000

I value my liberal arts education - which, btw, I received in the 70s. To get a BA, you certainly have to investigate the colleges to see that they are offering a classical education. I realize more and more they are not but such schools do exist. It’s a shame that so many freepers (I’m not including you) seem to despise such an education today. Especially the engineers among us who have a very weird attitude to people who have degrees in English Literature and Art.


25 posted on 11/07/2015 3:54:30 AM PST by miss marmelstein (I support Trump but refuse to engage in the lynching of Ben Carson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

To: achilles2000

I do not advocate a liberal arts degree for young people today as the programs I have reviewed are far more political than they should be.

If you were to look at a reading list for a liberal arts program prior to 1970, you would find literature that deals with the human condition in a relatively objective way. This is the material I was speaking of.


33 posted on 11/07/2015 11:15:00 AM PST by enotheisen (CMSGT USAF Ret)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson