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To: marginmike who wrote (92327)1/23/2001 1:16:48 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
but in my experience engineers tend to think in a scientific black or white type of way

I'm a design engineer by profession. If I was "mentally rigid" I'd last two hours in this business. Any designer can tell you there are not very many black and white answers to the questions we try and solve. How can there be? If you're out there on that edge, making something new, the only answers that exist are the ones you find for yourself. OTOH, I can think of many, many liberal arts majors who have minds tighter than a funeral drum.

The idea that a liberal arts education somehow opens your mind more than a more-technical education is, IMO, nonsense. It doesn't depend on the subject matter, it depends on who is doing the learning and especially on who is doing the teaching.
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