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The general education requirement is one of the single most important things that universities demand. A well rounded, liberal arts education is crucial to maki
by driscoll42 3y ago
The general education requirement is one of the single most important things that universities demand. A well rounded, liberal arts education is crucial to making sure people who come out don't just come out with a hyper specialized knowledge and know nothing else of the world. I agree that it could be taught better, in fact there should be more gen ed reqs added, not fewer.
- pirocks 3y agoI've heard some variation of this many many times, and remain very unconvinced. General education in university isn't the norm around the world. Are non-americans all hyper-specialized people who know nothing else of the world? Are people who didn't go to university the same? Did someone do a study at some point and conclude that general ed was important or do these general ed requirements exist purely because they are tradition?
- starcraft2wol 3y ago> General education in university isn't the norm around the world. And it shows. I was recently at a training for $ELITE_HIRING_COMPANY and as part of this they asked us to discuss some liberal arts style questions. The international hires who had been answering business questions all day suddenly were extremely confused at the question itself and had nothing to add (and it wasn't a language problem). You might argue that those skills are not substantive or valuable, and perhaps we just learned in school to parrot reasonable sounding responses, but it was a stark contrast.
- starcraft2wol 3y agoI agree in principle. It's probably better at top schools and lib arts colleges, but a large percentage of my generals were also low quality department fundraisers (a health class comes to mind).