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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by jackcosgrove on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:30PM (#23034323)
> Should college be a trade school or should it stick to it's roots of broadening one's horizons?

The term "liberal arts" means "free arts". The root of this term is that Athenian society was composed of a small class of free families and everyone else was a slave owned by those families. The free families were wealthy enough to afford a liberal education for their free sons.

Everyone else had to work.

Those are the roots of the liberal arts.

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by kaibee on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:08PM (#23034832)
We have robots instead of slaves now. We, as a society, can afford to provide a liberal arts education to everyone. In fact, we already do, for grades 1-12. I think the main issue is that that education fails people who could progress through it faster (and those who need more time in certain areas).
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