07-02-2017, 02:59 PM
As an educator, I'm really getting tired of people saying certain degrees are worthless. Education is about opening the mind to new ideas, and learning to think, essentially learning how to learn. It is a life skill that can applied broadly. You know what pre-law means? it means just get a bachelors in whatever you want then law school will do the rest (and bar exam cramming will get you to pass the Bar) -- Pre-med means take lots of math and science, then apply to med-school.
We have turned the idea of higher education into overpriced trade schools. I want employees who can think independently and problem solve. I want them to have people skills, and confidence. I can teach them the business (which I'll likely have to do anyway).
There is nothing wrong or wasteful in a liberal arts degree. The bearer will have a well rounded education that can be applied across the spectrum. With the system in place now, schools are just churning out drones who know how to do one skill and little else. That isn't education - it is indoctrination.
Give me students who have expanded their world, not number crunchers who are afraid to try anything new. We wonder why education has declined - this specialization is a major reason why.
Sorry, I'll get of my soapbox now (the Krishna's have free lunch going in the quad)
We have turned the idea of higher education into overpriced trade schools. I want employees who can think independently and problem solve. I want them to have people skills, and confidence. I can teach them the business (which I'll likely have to do anyway).
There is nothing wrong or wasteful in a liberal arts degree. The bearer will have a well rounded education that can be applied across the spectrum. With the system in place now, schools are just churning out drones who know how to do one skill and little else. That isn't education - it is indoctrination.
Give me students who have expanded their world, not number crunchers who are afraid to try anything new. We wonder why education has declined - this specialization is a major reason why.
Sorry, I'll get of my soapbox now (the Krishna's have free lunch going in the quad)