How the Professional Left's Blind Obama Hatred Got them Played by a Far-Right Nutjob

[Hekate]

53. What we used to proudly call the Liberal Arts certainly gives you wide exposure

English lit., philosophy, history, languages, sciences -- that used to be considered the basis of a well-rounded education that taught an undergraduate student how to think critically. It's what Core Requirements used to be for, too.

I think GOPers like focused majors like Engineering, Comp Sci, and so forth. My sister got her Engineering degree in the early 1970s, and said it was pretty much like a trade degree, vocational education. She had not one single class in the Core Requirements I slogged through on my way to a BA in History. Well, she was required to take English 101, but she tested out of that. She had a job at the end of it, and I didn't, so there you are.

Fortunately for my sister and my relationship with her, we come from a family of intensive readers and talkers, so she was okay in that regard. Same with her husband.

But hell, it has always made me wonder about too-narrow focus -- and now we've got these political nuts who denigrate all forms of public education and are anti-intellectual like nobody's business. Just do your job and don't look at the big picture or think about it. Critical thinking could be unAmerican, seditious, and atheistic. College? Sure, if you want to stagger under debt for the rest of your life.

>sigh<