{"id":29576,"date":"2012-05-25T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=29576"},"modified":"2012-05-25T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T15:18:52","slug":"some-items-re-a-thumbs-up-to-liberal-arts-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/05\/25\/some-items-re-a-thumbs-up-to-liberal-arts-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Some items re: a thumbs up to liberal arts degrees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/25\/opinion\/brooks-the-service-patch.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Service Patch<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from The New York Times, OP-ED piece by David Brooks<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let\u2019s put it differently. Many people today find it easy to use the vocabulary of entrepreneurialism, whether they are in business or social entrepreneurs. This is a utilitarian vocabulary. How can I serve the greatest number? How can I most productively apply my talents to the problems of the world? It\u2019s about resource allocation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">People are less good at using the vocabulary of moral evaluation, which is less about what sort of career path you choose than what sort of person you are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In whatever field you go into, you will face greed, frustration and failure. You may find your life challenged by depression, alcoholism, infidelity, your own stupidity and self-indulgence. So how should you structure your soul to prepare for this? Simply working at Amnesty International instead of McKinsey is not necessarily going to help you with these primal character tests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Furthermore, how do you achieve excellence? Around what ultimate purpose should your life revolve? Are you capable of heroic self-sacrifice or is life just a series of achievement hoops? These, too, are not analytic questions about what to do. They require literary distinctions and moral evaluations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When I read the Stanford discussion thread, I saw young people with deep moral yearnings. But they tended to convert moral questions into resource allocation questions; questions about how to be into questions about what to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/views\/blogs\/daily-brief\/2012\/05\/14\/survey-on-millennial-hiring-highlights-power-of-liberal-arts#ixzz1vt6cbEBi\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Revenge of the Liberal Arts Major<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from portfolio.com by J. Jennings Moss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re in college, or happen to be about to graduate, and you&#8217;ve been mocked for getting a liberal arts degree, here&#8217;s a piece of welcome news: You&#8217;re actually in more demand than those who are getting finance and accounting degrees. That&#8217;s one of the findings of a new survey of 225 employers issued today by <a href=\"http:\/\/millennialbranding.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Millennial Branding<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experience.com\/entry-level-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Experience Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\n<em> My thanks to Mr. Will Katerberg, Dir. Mellema Program and Professor of History at Calvin College, for these resource<\/em>s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Service Patch &#8212; from The New York Times, OP-ED piece by David Brooks Let\u2019s put it differently. Many people today find it easy to use the vocabulary of entrepreneurialism, whether they are in business or social entrepreneurs. This is a utilitarian vocabulary. How can I serve the greatest number? 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