I am fucking sick of these kind of bullshit surveys.
My question is, how much would you pay NOT to be an ignorant fuck about the world, or literature, science, philosophy etc.
My second question for those who have paid a lot of money and feel rooked by the ´system´; how much would you accept as payment pèr year to unlearn what you encountered in your liberal arts college classroom just so you could be a Dilbert?, i.e. the rise of facism? the poetry of wcwilliams? feminsim? the history of the vietnam war? Constitutional law? the cave analogy?
Yes, you want to pay the bills, but if you think the problem is with the education you are recieving and not with how dominated our lives are by the power of corporations to shape everything in terms of private profit for the already rich than you are duped. But how would you know that with any sophistication if you weren´t introduced to that idea in a useless liberal arts course. I understand the frustration, but if you turn liberal arts colleges into trade schools we might as well just insert the chips in our brains right now so we can ´pay the bills´.
Btw
. There is also a pretty delicious piece in the NYT coming from an interview with a CEO who discusses the intellectual qualities he looks for in job candidates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/business/26corner.html?em
Almost every single one of the qualities this CEO calls for comes from serious educational training in the humanities. Indeed a first-tier design school I taught applied ethics at for 8 years in Manhattan restructured its entire curriculum in order to include a much stronger liberal arts/humanities core, at the behest of leaders in the business community! These leaders wanted critical thinkers, effective communicators, who could write and come to judgments independently.
On According to "Survey": College Majors and their Resulting Salaries
I am fucking sick of these kind of bullshit surveys.
My question is, how much would you pay NOT to be an ignorant fuck about the world, or literature, science, philosophy etc.
My second question for those who have paid a lot of money and feel rooked by the ´system´; how much would you accept as payment pèr year to unlearn what you encountered in your liberal arts college classroom just so you could be a Dilbert?, i.e. the rise of facism? the poetry of wcwilliams? feminsim? the history of the vietnam war? Constitutional law? the cave analogy?
Yes, you want to pay the bills, but if you think the problem is with the education you are recieving and not with how dominated our lives are by the power of corporations to shape everything in terms of private profit for the already rich than you are duped. But how would you know that with any sophistication if you weren´t introduced to that idea in a useless liberal arts course. I understand the frustration, but if you turn liberal arts colleges into trade schools we might as well just insert the chips in our brains right now so we can ´pay the bills´.
Btw
. There is also a pretty delicious piece in the NYT coming from an interview with a CEO who discusses the intellectual qualities he looks for in job candidates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/business/26corner.html?em
Almost every single one of the qualities this CEO calls for comes from serious educational training in the humanities. Indeed a first-tier design school I taught applied ethics at for 8 years in Manhattan restructured its entire curriculum in order to include a much stronger liberal arts/humanities core, at the behest of leaders in the business community! These leaders wanted critical thinkers, effective communicators, who could write and come to judgments independently.