Liberal-education

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liberal-education

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People are always talking about the importance of liberal education, but they can never tell you why it's important

They either give you vague tali about wel roundednes or the human spirit or they tell you that philosophy degree will help you job

Yeah, those are bad arguments this is very straightforward why do we want a liberal education? Because everyone in the modern university is living in its opposite and it sucks

Universities are run like businesses whose primary product is certificate generation among people who already have the certificate, the goal grant acquisition while generating certificates for people who might one day secure more grants

The people who buy the certificates pay fortunes because need the certificate to get job thus the university is serving very pragmatic role in certification and job alification whose virtues are very easy to expl lain without any appeal to philosophy or or vague ideas about well -roundedness.

Most of the questions I answer for students are about how : Grade and what information will be on a test this is because they need good grades to get the certificate to get the job oblige because I know they need the certificate and so my bosses don't get mad and if student wants office hours just to talk about sting things am iannoyed because I need to spend my time grading papers so the other students can pass the class, get certificates and get jobs

So, you see we all know why we're doing what we're doing no mystery no fuzzy talk no effete notions about the human spirt or whatever

Andi sucks

Now, imagine a place an old, dank pub it's hard to get to, it's foll of weirdos. Most people don't even want go in and you certainly don't get credentials for descending the stairs the people who do go have met there for thousands of years purely for fell .Owship they argue. They criticize they praise. The lame they sing some times and sometimes they cry and sometimes they come to make friends or make enemies, but they are always and only there in earnest

The sheer age of the pub and its continuous occupation means there are ongoing conversations unbroken going back to people who thought the sun was chariot and rivers were alive through people who described the motion of the planets and changed our what space is down to one person the corner today screaming over the crowd about or complexity classes or

You the second place is superior without vague about the homan spirit or a life well lived or --roundeoness. But you know that the first makes you tired while the second place would be so beloved that if it burned down you'd want to bury it and write its name on a stone

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The best argument for a iberal education is that it makes a place in the world that is less like the first place and more like the second lace. Because whether you can go in the building or just look in the window or only read about it in old books, you know it's better

Sorry thatwasa bit of a rant

No. I'm just wondering can get course credit for this conversation

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Also these days the pub mostly serves amphetamines. (cop)

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