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.
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...
Depends on the school. Depends on the program.
“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.
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.
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.