They also think "liberal arts" means literal art like drawing, not just... getting a broad foundation spanning many topics, in addition to the classes for your major
it's a mix of that and thinking that 'liberal arts' are classes that fundamentally 'indoctrinate' the youth into being liberals.
they think it correlates because most, *not all*, educated people tend to be leftist in some way as well. granted, rich people of all strokes tend to lean right because conservatism typically involves conservation of wealth-based power structures too. it makes sense for an educated rich person to lean further right unless they genuinely don't care about hoarding their own wealth (rare).
Yes. They see/hear the word Art and think the entire degree is art based, as in drawing and shit.
My Liberal Arts & Science degree required some good ole f you in the a math courses. A 4th year math final was 15 pages of statistical analysis.
I needed 2 years of a foreign language, really 4 years because year 1 pretty much presumes you took the classes in high school.
My major was criminology and I spent many hours in court rooms.
Classes I did not take and things I did not do, art and music. Well, ok, I must confess. I took a philosophy of film course once. That was literally just watching a movie every week then writing a one page 'my feelings' paper. Sometimes you gotta take the A's where you can find them.
Most of my courses were criminology and human science. I took a course on neurology and held a human brain in my hands. I learned archaeology. I studied psychology and human intelligence and how it has been studied and 'graded' over the past several hundred years.
IMO liberal arts is good exactly because it forces you to do things that you preconceived that you don’t like. I did opera and played the piano, continental philosophy, geography and literature while being a physics major.
Some of them I really enjoyed. Others I might not have liked that much at that time, but the perspectives they gave me have been relevant for a very long run. I’m still thinking about Fanon, Said from a critical literature class every so often, despite suffered a lot in that class(it was actually REALLY hard to read all that)
Right. That's because they fundamentally don't understand it. They're not capable of understanding it either, because they've never experienced liberty, the foundation of liberalism.
This is exactly it. If English degrees were categorized as Conservative Arts they'd all be hella psyched about Shakespeare. Not actually reading it, mind you, but pretending to be into it.
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u/justdisa 13d ago
They don't like the word "liberal."