"Tom Sixkiller" writes:

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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But that's why I'm a (rare) proponent of a liberal arts education. The
broader (some might say "more useless" :-) education of a liberal arts
degree goes a long way toward teaching one to think, study, and learn.


But over the last thirty years or so a liberal arts "education" has
increasingly taught students to "think" only one way.

Ah...no, they teach (roughly) that thinking is impotent, reality doesn't
exist and a slew of other noxious "ideas". And it's not the last thirty
years, but more like the 1920's and John Dewey.

Certainly not what I encountered at Carleton College in the 1970s.
Liberal arts education meant a broad base of material, and an emphasis
on critical thinking.
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