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If liberal arts degrees are so useful, why are people constantly posting articles trying to justify their worth? I'm a believer that results speak for themselves. How many articles have you seen trying to defend the usefulness of engineering and medical degrees?
If liberal arts degrees are so useful, why are people constantly posting articles trying to justify their worth? I'm a believer that results speak for themselves. How many articles have you seen trying to defend the usefulness of engineering and medical degrees?
The statistics don't lie. Most of the academic progress comes out of liberal arts fields. So you're right, the results speak for themselves.
The statistics don't lie. Most of the academic progress comes out of liberal arts fields. So you're right, the results speak for themselves.
Depends on what you call the "liberal arts". If you go with the classic definition, it covers pretty much all the purely academic programs offered by a university, so this is no surprise. If you go by the modern misnomer which confuses liberal arts with humanities (and that's what the WSJ article is referring to, as they contrast liberal arts with STEM), not so much.
The statistics don't lie. Most of the academic progress comes out of liberal arts fields. So you're right, the results speak for themselves.
Did you make most of your money in academia, or industry? I personally consider 'pay off' to refer to compensation and general employability. Other people may be more focused on contributing to research, and if so, good for them.
Well, my kids all have liberal arts majors....not really concerned for their futures....one will be a dentist, one will work in high finance and one will be a pilot....hummmmm
I think the issue is most people really don't understand what Liberal Arts encompasses....math, science, etc are all liberal arts degrees....
Well, my kids all have liberal arts majors....not really concerned for their futures....one will be a dentist, one will work in high finance and one will be a pilot....hummmmm
But the dentist and the pilot at least had to get a specialized professional education on top of their liberal arts degrees.
Well, my kids all have liberal arts majors....not really concerned for their futures....one will be a dentist, one will work in high finance and one will be a pilot....hummmmm
And I will be an astronaut. Future tense is a very different thing than present.
Get back to us when they have actually gotten into their fields.
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