Category — From the Director

Why is it important to take courses outside your major?  To explore different subjects, learn new habits of mind, and cultivate intellectual curiosity?  Consider this… the liberal arts education as yummy ice-cream sundae!

from Thomas Friedman’s column in the New York Times today (10/21):

Just being an average accountant, lawyer, contractor or assembly-line worker is not the ticket it used to be. As Daniel Pink, the author of “A Whole New Mind,” puts it: In a world in which more and more average work can be done by a computer, robot or talented foreigner faster, cheaper “and just as well,” vanilla doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s all about what chocolate sauce, whipped cream and cherry you can put on top. So our schools have a doubly hard task now — not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

Kind Students,

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