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College Doesn't Need To Be DeVry
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It's a pet thing for some conservatives, including Scott Walker, and so the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point is proposing dropping all 13 liberal arts and humanities majors in favor of majors that are vocationally oriented, majors that are specific to certain job skills. That makes sense if you look at college as training for a career, but not if you look at it as training for life. And if you actually WENT to college, you would understand that a lot of the experience is not about learning how to do a job, it's learning critical thinking and how to live with others and about the foundations for a lot of life, which often involve the things you learn in English and Political Science and Philosophy classes. If we don't teach students about those things, who'll pass them along to future generations? The school insists they'll still have those classes, but you won't be able to major in them, meaning you won't really learn any of that in depth. And that would be a bad thing. (Washington Post)
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