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23 Jun 09
A Humanities Halliburton: The Govindaraj Sisters’ Minerva « Generation Bubble
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“To really be prepared for a job — any job — you need to have some understanding of who you are and what your history is, and where you want to go. You need to be able to think clearly and write a good English sentence, to have a good critical awareness, and that is fostered by a liberal arts awareness.”
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There’s a specter haunting humanities, the specter of worker productivity. Technology marches ever onward, demanding that skill development keep pace. Expectations of having to retrain at regular intervals in the future only motivate university students to maximize the amount of know-how acquired in the present, meaning the humanities, which emphasize general over specialized knowledge, only get more and more marginalized.
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