Reading Questions- 4/24 Jonathan Edelstein

Do you think college should cost a different amount for students pursuing a liberal arts degree. Is  a  liberal arts education worth less because the starting salary is generally lower?

Is class size more important in a liberal arts classroom than in a more technical class? Can online learning be used in the liberal arts?

Do you think a liberal arts education should place more emphasis on quantitative reasoning AND verbal reasoning, rather than most majors focusing on one or the other?

Eventually, one has to learn a trade. When do you think is the right time to end a focus on the liberal arts and focus specifically on a certain career? Are the liberal arts that one is exposed to in high school enough to be considered well rounded?

Should colleges “force” students to take a certain number of liberal arts classes? Can such mandatory classes actually make student better citizens, or do they infringe on the right of the student to study whatever he or she desires?

Why are the liberal arts so commonly degraded in terms of job prospects? Wouldn’t a liberal arts degree strongly position graduates for any writing based, analytical career? There seems to be a myriad of different career opportunities a liberal arts education prepares one for.  Can this idea that a liberal arts degree is inferior to a technical degree when it comes to jobs be viewed as a kind of self-fulfilling myth?