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I wish people would stop regarding liberal arts degrees as anything other than the most expensive form of entertainment.
by 88e282102ae2e5b 11y ago
I wish people would stop regarding liberal arts degrees as anything other than the most expensive form of entertainment.
- gregd 11y agoWhy aren't we asking why this is even a degree? It's not an expensive form of entertainment, it was designed as a fallback mechanism for the college to make money.
- gnoway 11y agoWell, at the school I went to (and did not graduate from), CS was offered through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Along with Mathematics, Chemistry, Economics, Biology and several other useful disciplines. Liberal Arts is not a codeword for 'interdisciplinary studies'.
- 88e282102ae2e5b 11y agoI use it as a blanket term for history, English, literature, philosophy, foreign languages, art, American studies, etc. Anything non-technical. I'm surprised your school was organized that way.
- MisterBastahrd 11y agoI wish people who know nothing of liberal arts education would stop dismissing it outright. It makes them seem petty and foolish. We need experts of all types in this world, not just nerds stuck behind a keyboard.
- Vraxx 11y agoNot necessarily disagreeing with your core point, but your point about needing experts of all types in the world would be better served without a type of expert outright.