tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post8735557184248562247..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: The Arts, Liberal and Servile Darwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-47603730850756937552018-04-06T05:34:08.941-04:002018-04-06T05:34:08.941-04:00Great analysis!
The other issue I don’t see addr...Great analysis! <br /><br />The other issue I don’t see addressed often in essays that advocate a vocational track such as many European countries have is that we had vocational tracks in the past in this country - and one of the reasons we did away with them is that they were often an essentially racist system, in which students of color were disproportionately deemed to be not college material. You would have to carefully address issues of bias based on race and social class before attempting to establish such a system again, I think. Son Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11863309198903282129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-87580122270442535582018-03-27T16:01:15.900-04:002018-03-27T16:01:15.900-04:00Since my husband has a degree in one of the origin...Since my husband has a degree in one of the original liberal arts, but makes income from an entirely different field, this topic arises periodically at home. Music for music's sake and all that jazz, but the value of the degree goes so far beyond the money that can be made from it. You learn a way to think and work that can be applied to any field. Our music degrees are extremely valuable in the work ethic and expectations of performance they instilled in us. My husband learned more durably valuable skills in music than he would have coasting through a BS in Business, even though the Business degree is superficially more applicable to his job. Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13472686909226073213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-84565467746963372702018-03-26T06:26:42.786-04:002018-03-26T06:26:42.786-04:00My sister the computer programmer who went to UofP...My sister the computer programmer who went to UofPortland (Holy Cross, so still has some "core" curricula) quoted a fellow alum who reflected that at the time, he couldn't see the point of all the non-major classes he was having to take, but now he sees they prepared him to better think through things he wasn't specifically prepared for by the major classes and solve new-to-him problems. Interesting (and reflective of the effect of the core curric?) that he recognizes it.mandamumnoreply@blogger.com