RE: Doublespeak?
April 30, 2019 at 6:03 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2019 at 6:03 am by Alan V.)
(April 29, 2019 at 11:09 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(April 29, 2019 at 5:28 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: First of all, when is anyone's complete knowledge-set used for their job? Probably never.
Second, education is not just for getting a job. Liberal arts educations are valuable regardless.
I agree with this. When I lived in DC, only about 1 out of 5 professionals I knew had a career related to their college studies (-estimate-). Unless you are a scientist or engineer, what you get in college isn't "career training" but rather "learning to cooperate in a professional environment and engage in problem solving."
My brother-in-law, a mechanical engineer, told me that his education was largely his way to prove he could learn to do the job he got. And he received his education at Carnegie Mellon.
