>They provide lots of different answers, with no great way to choose between them. ...that's the point. The entire purpose of a liberal arts education is to l

>They provide lots of different answers, with no great way to choose between them. ...that's the point. The entire purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn about what is important to you personally, what it means to be a person in a world full of other people making that same journey, how to understand the events that lead to where we are today, how to think about and approach new ideas, how to evaluate and process new information and so on. Your comment that shows a misunderstanding of the liberal arts reflects a core failure of the education system that is unfortunately all too common.