Comments on: Is the liberal arts model sustainable? http://www.steincommunications.com/thescoop/is-the-liberal-arts-model-sustainable/ Marketing and communications for education Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:25:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Taylor http://www.steincommunications.com/thescoop/is-the-liberal-arts-model-sustainable/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Taylor Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:52:12 +0000 http://www.steincommunications.com/thescoop/?p=574#comment-739 I thought that post would get a rise out of you! It is a sad commentary. Donoghue isn't advocating that view so much as he's articulating the on-it's-way-to-being-conventional wisdom. One could argue that the "real values" of the country are manifesting themselves. Education isn't about depth or virtue--for most people--anymore. It's about the credential, and if getting that can be done faster and cheaper, that's what they want. I thought that post would get a rise out of you!

It is a sad commentary. Donoghue isn’t advocating that view so much as he’s articulating the on-it’s-way-to-being-conventional wisdom. One could argue that the “real values” of the country are manifesting themselves. Education isn’t about depth or virtue–for most people–anymore. It’s about the credential, and if getting that can be done faster and cheaper, that’s what they want.

]]> By: Ross Lenhart http://www.steincommunications.com/thescoop/is-the-liberal-arts-model-sustainable/comment-page-1/#comment-738 Ross Lenhart Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:17:31 +0000 http://www.steincommunications.com/thescoop/?p=574#comment-738 . . . "all fields deemed impractical." ? It seems to me that a country without the arts is a country without a soul. It also seems to me that this is a movement towards an education without depth without virtue leading to a society without real values. A sad sad commentary. . . . “all fields deemed impractical.” ? It seems to me that a country without the arts is a country without a soul. It also seems to me that this is a movement towards an education without depth without virtue leading to a society without real values. A sad sad commentary.

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