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H the K wrote:
Gene wrote:
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:45:18 -0400, Jim wrote:

H the K wrote:
Gene wrote:
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:02:27 -0400, NotNow penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|Most are in engineering, funny, though, NONE are in liberal arts!
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|http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp

None, I suspect, have EVER been in liberal arts. But, then, how
civilized would we be without grammar, rhetoric, logic, geometry,
arithmetic, music, or astronomy?

An awful lot of us liberal arts graduates didn't go to college to
learn a trade.
Obviously. Even the basket weaving courses were too tough for some of
you deep thinkers.

I went, on my 14th birthday, to get a worker's permit..... and until I
was in my 40's worked at least 2 jobs at any one given time. I'm down
to only one, now....

I was capable and actively involved in working a trade before I got my
first liberal arts degree.... you don't have to be a racket scientist
to earn a wage.

A good education serves to "polish and adorn the mind." Something a
lot of posters here certainly don't seem to value......

Don't belittle a classical education until you have one.....

Hmmm. I also got a work permit at the age of 14. The state allowed kids
to work if they were doing ok in school and the work was "light." No
manufacturing jobs or jobs running serious machinery. I think you had to
be either 16 or maybe 18 for heavier work.

Before he started his own business, my father was the ad manager for a
chain of small stores his uncle owned. Before that, he got a degree in
art. Figure painting was his lifelong avocation. Just before WWII, he
opened a machine shop and soon after the war broke out, he got contracts
from a brass company in Waterbury to turn out shell casings. As soon as
the war was over, he started up a motorcycle, scooter, and boat
business, which he ran for some 30 years.

Anyway, when it became time for me to go to college, he encouraged me to
stick with the liberal arts and "learn how to think." I followed his
advice. He got me some pretty good summertime jobs that required manual
labor, and I was glad for them and for the experiences.

I never regretted getting a formal classical education.

"my father"....

Yawn