We're clearly working from different assumptions. For my children I wanted precisely what they received, which was a good liberal arts education. Moreover, what I want for students, let's say just as an illustration, in City University in New York, is a good liberal arts education and good job prospects when they graduate.
I genuinely don't see the two as opposites, as locked in some zero sum game. In the aggregate, a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer, a scientist, a corporate executive, a mid level executive, is better at her or his job if her or his imagination is broader, if they are equipped with better critical thinking skills, and if they have a deeper, longer view of what it means to be human embedded in the long history of being such.
It's quite possible to do both well. |
