<p>The bottom line is that we need to stop pushing the idea of a “liberal arts education”. There are plenty of intellectually mature and motivated students who will intentionally seek that out and benefit massively from it; the others will be wasting their time taking irrelevant classes and wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars of their money. Students who have not migrated towards liberal arts should be encouraged to follow vocational pathways that minimize their time/money lost, and should be allowed to specialize as soon as they are ready (i.e. get rid of gen ed).</p>