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Re:Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-savin... by jellicle on Thursday October 20, 2011 @11:10PM (#3138184)
> But I also suspect the liberal arts have lost a lot by not requiring a thorough knowledge of the hard science as a foundation.

Okay, but how? 10-year Bachelor's degrees? Part of the reason why the world is getting more specialized is that there is more knowledge out there to be known. A thorough knowledge of the hard sciences is not something you can squeeze into a semester.

Re:Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially life-savin... by jmonegro on Friday October 21, 2011 @02:02AM (#3138643)
Exactly. Cramming such amounts of knowledge into every individual is terribly inefficient.