Anonymous
07/13/2021 11:37
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts teach you what you need to be successfully so many different situations.
Engineering, accounting, finance, and other field-specific majors teach you how to solve problems in specific areas.
I have a degree in the former. My husband has a degree in the later. It's amazing how much of what I consider a whole education he is missing. He was prepared for a certain job, but doesn't have the familiarity with literature, art, history, and philosophy that I thought was normal because all of my SLAC friends recognize those references. And he sucks at Jeopardy. lol
Interest, my engineer spouse has a heavy interest in politics and government and reads way more than I do.
Anonymous
07/13/2021 11:35
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:5 pages of people swallowing the most obvious troll bait.
And people saying it's great bc you can then go to law school and get hired by Big Law.
Freedom for my son to choose a major is important because my son is wonderful, the future is uncertain, and learning for the sake of learning can be a great joy.
Even if flood, fire, famine, war or pestilence destroys everything, at least my son will still have the memory of learning what he wanted to learn, and maybe he’ll have enough stored knowledge and nimbleness of thought to figure out how to face whatever it is he’ll have to face.
And he can go through life knowing he at least tried to be fully human, not just a serf who thinks what the boss needs for him to think.
While in Big Law?
Anonymous
07/13/2021 08:40
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Liberal arts teach you what you need to be successfully so many different situations.
Engineering, accounting, finance, and other field-specific majors teach you how to solve problems in specific areas.
I have a degree in the former. My husband has a degree in the later. It's amazing how much of what I consider a whole education he is missing. He was prepared for a certain job, but doesn't have the familiarity with literature, art, history, and philosophy that I thought was normal because all of my SLAC friends recognize those references. And he sucks at Jeopardy. lol
Engineering, accounting, finance, and other field-specific majors teach you how to solve problems in specific areas.
I have a degree in the former. My husband has a degree in the later. It's amazing how much of what I consider a whole education he is missing. He was prepared for a certain job, but doesn't have the familiarity with literature, art, history, and philosophy that I thought was normal because all of my SLAC friends recognize those references. And he sucks at Jeopardy. lol
Anonymous
07/13/2021 00:40
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:5 pages of people swallowing the most obvious troll bait.
And people saying it's great bc you can then go to law school and get hired by Big Law.
Freedom for my son to choose a major is important because my son is wonderful, the future is uncertain, and learning for the sake of learning can be a great joy.
Even if flood, fire, famine, war or pestilence destroys everything, at least my son will still have the memory of learning what he wanted to learn, and maybe he’ll have enough stored knowledge and nimbleness of thought to figure out how to face whatever it is he’ll have to face.
And he can go through life knowing he at least tried to be fully human, not just a serf who thinks what the boss needs for him to think.
Anonymous
07/12/2021 21:19
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Anonymous wrote:5 pages of people swallowing the most obvious troll bait.
And people saying it's great bc you can then go to law school and get hired by Big Law.
Anonymous
07/12/2021 19:48
Subject: Re:Would you let your child study liberal arts?
English major here. Then graduated magna cum laude from a T10 law school. Worked in Big Law then went in house years ago. With options I bring in $500k+ per year. Your caviar dreams can come true even with a pedestrian liberal arts degree, OP.
Anonymous
07/12/2021 19:38
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Yes. "Liberal arts" = mathematics, English, history, etc...
not these bs majors and career-centric majors that will be dated in 5 years.
not these bs majors and career-centric majors that will be dated in 5 years.
Anonymous
07/12/2021 19:25
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Of course. History major - now biglaw partner
Anonymous
07/12/2021 09:42
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
5 pages of people swallowing the most obvious troll bait.
Anonymous
07/11/2021 23:12
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Anonymous wrote:What “you” want is totally irrelevant. It’s not “your” decision.
Quite right.
Anonymous
07/11/2021 21:52
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
“Let”? It’s the only thing I WILL pay for.
Anonymous
07/11/2021 21:23
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Anonymous wrote:I am a university professor. Luckily my kids get free tuition at my university so if they want to study "whatever" then that's their fallback. I would not pay for liberal arts or hard sciences. I would pay for most engineering fields, accounting, finance, and that's about it. They would also need to get admitted to a school ranked at least 20 spots higher if I'm going to pay private school level tuitions. There just is not that much difference in quality or outcomes between schools ranked 20 and 40, or between 50 and 100 for that matter.
Where do you teach?
Anonymous
07/11/2021 21:20
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Need to get that ROI…
SMH
SMH
Anonymous
07/11/2021 18:56
Subject: Would you let your child study liberal arts?
I have a BA in Studio Art and a JD from a top tier law school. I am in a position to full pay wherever my children want to go to school. If my parents had dictated my undergraduate degree I probably would not have one now.
I will not pay any amount for any school if it is not a good value and my child is not engaged, but if my child is passionate and learning and will get a BA I will not criticize the subject, I will be happy to help them get a good start in life.
I will not pay any amount for any school if it is not a good value and my child is not engaged, but if my child is passionate and learning and will get a BA I will not criticize the subject, I will be happy to help them get a good start in life.
Anonymous
07/11/2021 16:12
Subject: Re:Would you let your child study liberal arts?
Anonymous wrote:Per Encyclopedia Britannica (emphasis mine):
Liberal arts, college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum. In the medieval European university the seven liberal arts were grammar, rhetoric, and logic (the trivium) and geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy (the quadrivium). In modern colleges and universities the liberal arts include the study of literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, and science as the basis of a general, or liberal, education. Sometimes the liberal-arts curriculum is described as comprehending study of three main branches of knowledge: the humanities (literature, language, philosophy, the fine arts, and history), the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and the social sciences.
So helpful PP. Thanks.
