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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd posit that a lot of the problems we have in the world today stems from de-emphasizing the liberal arts over the past generation or two. I don't think you should waste time and money getting a PhD in the subjects. But a better background in things like history, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, poetry, music, and art would create more capable citizens.

Things aren't going to end well if we're nothing but a country full of computer programmers, finance majors, plumbers, and high school dropouts. [/quote]

Have you look at the state of the humanities and social sciences today? The discourse has jumped the shark. It consists of activist professors teaching revisionist history, obsessed with blindly overturning every norm of social behavior, advocating for nakedly discriminatory practices at the institutional and governmental level, and weirdly obsessed with gender and sexuality.

There's a stark difference between the social atmosphere on campus at a liberal arts school and the real world. However now over the past 5-10 years, these student-zealots have entered the workforce and politics and are enforcing their new world order onto the rest of society.

The problem isn't a de-emphasis in liberal arts. A college education was rare to begin with, let alone one focused on the liberal arts. The problem is that the humanities and social sciences education today is garbage. [/quote]

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