Colleges Should Be More Than Just Vocational Schools

The steady disinvestment in the liberal arts risks turning America’s universities into vocational schools narrowly focused on professional training. Increasingly, they have robust programs in subjects like business, nursing and computer science but less and less funding for and focus on departments of history, literature, philosophy, mathematics and theology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/humanities-liberal-arts-policy-higher-education.html

Fake News.
 
How many people--what proportion of the population-- really needs a liberal arts degree? Today, in the US, we have a glut of lawyers we don't need, lots of people with some useless liberal arts degree driving an Uber or managing a Burger King, while there is a massive shortage of skilled tradespeople across the board.

Seems to me we need lots more people with technical or trades training and degrees and a whole lot less of ones with useless degrees in womyn's studies, art history, political science, and the like.

There are people with college degrees who are electricians and carpenters. Somehow you do not realize one can have both a college degree, and have trade training.
 
There are people with college degrees who are electricians and carpenters. Somehow you do not realize one can have both a college degree, and have trade training.

Not surprised Gardner opposes the study of political science. That guy knows nothing about our country and its government.
 
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