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6. Fuck liberal arts. Bring back shop class.

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 07:06 PM

Oct 2014

I have a whole list of bookmarked articles in a folder called "Liberal Arts Sucks Donkey Balls." Don't bother with Shakespeare unless you want to be asking people "To want fries with that or not to want fries with that?"

Been there, done that (graduating in '15). Probably going to be a bum the rest of my life as a result. The poets are as dead as Robin Williams, and the only "books" people read anymore are Us Weekly and the SI swimsuit issue. The jobs are in computers, period. Not ballet dancing or medieval history. Honestly, I'm a product of a (state-U) liberal-arts education, and all I can say is that I'd much rather my mind go hungry if my stomach could be full.

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STEM is incredibly valuable, but if we want the best innovators we must teach the arts [View all] antigop Oct 2014 OP

never fails to disgust me that the arts are not considered valuable, despite the studies niyad Oct 2014 #1

ALSO RadicalGeek Oct 2014 #2

I wish I had the brain for it. I wish -- for my life -- that I did. Ampersand Unicode Oct 2014 #5

The STEM acronym is sorta outdated anyway. enki23 Oct 2014 #3

But the market is just booming for performance artists and historians? Ampersand Unicode Oct 2014 #7

hey, nobody flies on only one wing! up with interdisciplinarity! nt MisterP Oct 2014 #4

Fuck liberal arts. Bring back shop class. Ampersand Unicode Oct 2014 #6