<p>LAC’s focus on teaching and educating rather than training for a trade. There are a multitude of people that now have college degrees that cannot think critically nor communicate their ideas, written or verbal. It shouldnt be but it is. </p>
<p>The evidence of this will be on display in the stands during the football games this weekend.</p>
<p>Teaching and educating and training for a trade are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Indeed, the trades that college students in liberal arts majors (whether at LACs or not) are being trained for are the academic ones, although relatively few will go into them after graduation.</p>
<p>Lack of critical thinking and communication skills is not necessarily mutually exclusive to being a football fan.</p>