<p>Idad: I get what you are saying, and again, I agree with you.</p>
<p>As soon as one starts saying "well, business leaders want such and such" I don't care what it is they want. It's changed by being presented as an education to fit a role, no matter how nicely that's couched.</p>
<p>I don't give a flying fig what any business leader wants to see in my kid's education. That's not why we're sending him there; that's not why he wants to be there.</p>
<p>I recently read a beautiful commencement speech about the meaning of what it means to be being educated, as given by the novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College:</p>
<p>A small quote that doesn't really sum up the beauty of the speech, but kind of summarizes what he's getting at about education:</p>
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Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts clich? about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
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