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Originally Posted by MarchHare
In the 1000+ years that universities have existed, that's only been a recent phenomenon in the last few decades. Prior to that, it was understood that universities developed well-rounded academic thinkers.
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That's great, but probably it isn't appropriate for the 50% plus of young people who go to university. Presumably that's why the article I opened with commented that functional illiteracy is still an issue with university students, and why they are talking about issues with learning critical thinking.
Should the academic/political/business decision makers have well rounded liberal educations - I think so. But that's a pretty small subset of the population. I'm skeptical that ancient Greek adds much value to someone who ends up working a clerical/retail/food service job.