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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bates has a tiny endowment.  Ad demographics shift, it's a school that will be left behind.

And with Middlebury,  hey it's 2023, if foreign languages is your claim to fame, you're already academic road kill. [/quote]

You don’t think their ability to teach adults complex foreign languages to a high standard, in a short time,  is impressive?

You sound very ignorant.[/quote]

Between English being the universal language over the past half century and certainly into the future,  along with translation being one of the easiest jobs for AI, foreign languages at Middlebury is quaint, but not at all forward thinking. [/quote]

I agree with what you say. But you don’t have to study foreign languages at Middlebury. 
It is a fine SLAC like it’s peers and probably most of them will study finance, medical or law related majors.

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Most people don’t go to Middlebury for the languages. Having gone there, I can tell you that many people studied them in order to go abroad junior year as the school had pretty stringent requirements for proficiency before they would allow you to study at a Middlebury school abroad. But, languages were very secondary to other majors.[/quote]

Important point made in the post above.

Find it peculiar that someone would criticize an elite LAC for having one of the best foreign language programs in the country. Is it being criticized for being too practical ? Certainly, foreign language ability is relevant and an important skill in the real world.[/quote]

Oh come on.   Yes,  it was an important skill for a limited set of workers decades ago, but mostly irrelevant today. [/quote]

Not true. Very important today in many lines of work. [/quote]

Such as???[/quote]

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