A lot of it is due to different conversational contexts. "The most interesting" or "funnest class" vs. "the most useful" or "relevant at work". The liberal arts

A lot of it is due to different conversational contexts. "The most interesting" or "funnest class" vs. "the most useful" or "relevant at work". The liberal arts ideal has not been relevant for college qua improver of base economic status for a while now. While many schools concentrate on this, those which primarily attract students looking to better their lot should not mix up the goals and offer students too much irrelevant material - that's not why they students are there. I personally value languages (dead and modern), poetry, history, philosophy etc. and spend more time with them than coding, publishing articles, living my whole adult life in other countries to have more language practice... but I wouldn't pretend they've helped me professionally. Now of course, many times students or even instructors missappreciate a course. Many of us pine at SICP no longer being used in CompSci courses - when its self justifying vitality and insight is an obvious boon to all involved! In response to you: I submit that many aren't in the right place in life or simply have differing goals and life paths and literally want to be pigeonholed into writing REST endpoints. Any philosophy, deeper consideration of what software or computer science are etc. is besides the point and they simply want to provide for their families. Once having reached a certain point, they are happy. You and me may both find that tragic and misguided in light of the rapidly changing workplace (not to speak of AI), but we are different people. A larger variety of educational goals at various establishments could go a long way.