Liberal Arts, a Lost Cause?

anonymous26
Sun, 09 Aug 2015 12:10:27 +0000

Critical thinking, like-long learning skills and problem solving are important traits no mater what career one enters. I have a BA in biology from a LAC. On a day-to-day basis I draw on what I learned from my non-science classes as much as courses in my major.

The STEM versus liberal arts discussion has gone a bit overboard. Not everyone has the interest or ability to be a STEM major not do we want a society of all engineers and mathematicians. Have we been told that the US must produce more STEM majors to see the needs of the new economy? Yes. We also need lawyers, writers and thinkers.