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Re:ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down by rbanffy on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @06:25PM (#12439716)
Maybe the solution would be to inject liberal arts into every curriculum if the college wants access to subsidies.

Producing well-rounded citizens is very important for a functioning society, therefore, it makes lots of sense to create incentives to produce well-roundedness.

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Re:ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down by eropple on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @07:24PM (#12439974)
This should be a requirement, and my own liberal education is why I'm glad I have one of the very few B.A.'s in Computer Science that my university issued. I could have taken a B.Sc., with more sciences, more maths. Instead I took the B.A. with a greater focus on classes like literature, economics, philosophy, and political science.

Taking Calc III and a fourth science class is a lot less valuable to me both as a worker and as a citizen than any one of my economics courses. (To say nothing of my public speaking courses.)

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