06-16-2020, 05:15 PM
(06-16-2020, 02:29 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: ... It seems that for those who choose liberal arts degrees these days, it means starting out with a deep hole of debt and no marketable job skills.
They actually have good skills, but ones no longer recognized as such. It's sad. Many of the public intellectuals of the past (and a few around today) had liberal educations: study of the classics, philosophy, civics (or political science as it's known today) and history. The Brits still do, to some extent. Mostly, we create specialists these days. Liberal Arts is the ultimate generalist field -- broad rather than deep. They lack one of the worst traits among the educated: 20/20 tunnel vision.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
