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Re:UK: Students could be prevented from taking university co... by beej71 on Saturday October 23, 2021 @11:24PM (#28974664)
Jobs famously spoke about how sitting in on a calligraphy class led to the typography innovations on the Mac.

It's hard to quantify the peripheral value of courses like those offered in the arts and humanities.

I'm very STEM-oriented, but I feel there's value in these courses that don't directly pay off in the free market.

Re:UK: Students could be prevented from taking university co... by rich_sasha on Sunday October 24, 2021 @02:43AM (#28975474)
I don’t know what is being proposed, but admittedly the Uk is littered with awful universities offering variations on “media studies”, which at best offer a government-subsidised lifestyle to some students for a few years, and at worst are visa scams (pay to join, you’ll get a student visa).

But of course they might mean “what use is psychology to a corporate automaton anyway”.

Re:UK: Students could be prevented from taking university co... by eappleby on Saturday October 23, 2021 @11:38PM (#28974758)
I think about this all the time. The combining of seemingly unrelated skills brings new perspectives and it helps people go from being cogs to creators.