tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post5049873925513581886..comments2023-08-17T10:18:24.628-04:00Comments on Multilitteratus Incognitus: The point of college and liberal arts educationApostolos K. ("AK")http://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455468843833525066.post-64999437663114175232012-04-05T17:41:40.213-04:002012-04-05T17:41:40.213-04:00Good posting. I think a mistake was made along the...Good posting. I think a mistake was made along the line in equating higher ed with instant job acquisition. We've made is sound like a simple case of cause and effect that never was a given. The fact is, the people I've worked with who just went to college for the "job skills" run through life with those expectation blinders on and are not particularly suited to working anyway. <br /><br />In college you are given the opportunity to study things that may at first seem of no interest to you. As silly as this sounds, I think this is the key to college process. A person who pursues only interests never actually moves outside the confines of their own head. This can be a very rich and rewarding place to reside, but they miss a big element of being human if they don't learn to negotiate with a world no more interested in them than they are in it.<br /><br />This sort of engagement with the world outside yourself is part of what college offers. Students who don't get this will only continue their disconnection to life beyond college, always feeling cheated. Apostolos K. ("AK")https://www.blogger.com/profile/02198465120131968928noreply@blogger.com