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It’s beneficial for a broad segment of society to be in conversant in the liberal arts — particularly history. Not everyone needs or wants a degree, but it’s ha
by solidsnack9000 9y ago
It’s beneficial for a broad segment of society to be in conversant in the liberal arts — particularly history. Not everyone needs or wants a degree, but it’s hard to have an informed or politically engaged populace without this kind of education making its way into everyone’s hands.
- justAnotherNET 9y agoAnd why can't high school communicate these critically important concepts? The current trend seems to consider those 4 years as utterly wasted. The biggest problem I have with education, as someone from an "Elite" engineering school, is the sheer inefficiency of it. We spend the first quarter of our entire lifetimes to get "educated". There has to be a better way and throwing more years at it isn't the answer.