Comments on: Survey Says…Math and Science Overshadow Liberal Arts

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By: Nearly Graduated Office Worker

Nearly Graduated Office Worker — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:38:11 +0000

Mine is also a biased perspective, but in light of what has been happening in our current government (obfuscation and destruction of government records) it seems that we should be putting more focus on the humanities than ever before. People I’ve spoken to about this (and who are a little further outside the historical discipline than I am) all ask the same kinds of questions: “how could this be happening?” They’re usually talking about the kinds of things that have shocked people about the current administration’s actions regarding the disappearance of e-mail records related to torture, and the Vice President’s preposterous claim to be outside the executive branch in order to keep his records from the public eye. I would suggest that these things are directly related to the neglect of the liberal arts in schools. People aren’t learning about the way our government works, or the history of our country’s founding, and therefore they are less likely to react when our government acts outside of the law. More importantly, an unbalanced education (one that focuses on science and math and leaves aside the arts) produces one sided people – people more likely to act without thinking, and stick to a “science is good regardless of the cost” mentality. But that’s just me.