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Jobs famously spoke about how sitting in on a calligraphy class led to the typography innovations on the Mac. It's hard to quantify the peripheral value of cou
by beej71 5y ago
Jobs famously spoke about how sitting in on a calligraphy class led to the typography innovations on the Mac.
It's hard to quantify the peripheral value of courses like those offered in the arts and humanities.
I'm very STEM-oriented, but I feel there's value in these courses that don't directly pay off in the free market.
- eappleby 5y agoI think about this all the time. The combining of seemingly unrelated skills brings new perspectives and it helps people go from being cogs to creators.
- rich_sasha 5y agoI don’t know what is being proposed, but admittedly the Uk is littered with awful universities offering variations on “media studies”, which at best offer a government-subsidised lifestyle to some students for a few years, and at worst are visa scams (pay to join, you’ll get a student visa). But of course they might mean “what use is psychology to a corporate automaton anyway”.