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An Apology for the Liberal Arts

HEPI

Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees. What is the purpose of a university education? Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. It disregards the true value of a liberal arts degree.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The guilds all controlled their membership and awarded their own qualifications.

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