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Originally posted by lynch1000s
The point of a liberal arts degree is to teach you how to learn, teach you how to be a critical thinker, and to make you a lifelong learner.
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bingo! that is what it is about. Not the bit of paper, not the job prospects, and not even the exact facts you learn in the lectures but but how it teaches you to think - which is not the same as telling you WHAT to think.
I was lucky that I had a teacher in high school (for a number of years..she was the only one teaching that level history) that made the point of her class to teach us how to use our brain and that continued into University.
It is like pushups for the brain that ensurses (particuarly in my majors) that you never look at the world the same again.