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The death of the liberal education

This is a long blog post and I am unable to sum it up to any credible standard.

http://theelectricagora.com/2015/10/19/on-some-common-rationales-for-liberal-education-and-why-they-arent-very-good/

It's based on the US but the same can easily be said for Britain. Arts & humanities is becoming ever more irrelevant.

Reply 1

Jonathan Crane

Arts and Humanities were relevant...?

Reply 2

Joinedup

Well he's specifically talking about bogus reasons being given for shoehorning compulsory arts modules into professional and technical degrees which isn't really occurring the same in the UK system - we have large numbers of students taking single honours arts degrees, the author states in the comments that at his uni they're fighting to keep art subjects as majors.

Reply 3

skeptical_john

Well quite a few humanities departments are being shut down in the UK due to lack of students and funding. And as Danial states they are stuck in a catch 22 where they only way it can be vaulable is a sort of counter culture critique but the unis wouldnt do it as it risks funding. (The very tope ones are not so desperate for money so have more freedom)