College classes are expensive, not everybody goes to school on scholarships or grants. At Madonna, classes are about $1,000 each. Students have a hard enough time understanding why to pay for classes that won’t affect their major, but it has them experience a little bit more. The emphasis on students major would get lost. Nobody wants to hire a business major that doesn’t know how to use a spreadsheet on the computer. Name one person who would say, “Yea, my nurse doesn’t know how to read my heart rate, but it’s okay because they can quote Shakespeare.”

There are certain aspects of liberal arts that are important. Most people don’t know about the canon and could use the basic knowledge of them. In humanities they make you read several different books, put some of the canon into humanities. In English they could make you read different books, or study a l

To rephrase this paragraph, as some people understand Gitlin just said we don’t know ourselves. We need to study liberal arts to find out who we truly are. Personally, I don’t need to be forced to study art or read a book to find out whom I am. By college most people know who they are, high school helps you figure that out. He also says that only “impressionable psychotics,” are entertained by our pop culture that he refers to as “dramas and depictions.” At one point and time everything was popular culture. But he means anybody that goes to see a movie for a first time is giving into popular culture. That’s an insult to anybody who owns a television, or has the Internet. While asking, “How shall we govern ourselves?” We have learned and moved on from our mistakes, when was the last protest to bring back slavery? Most people don’t go out and try bad ideas from the past just because they didn’t take a class on liberal arts.

“Regardless of one’s views of the curricular conflicts of our time, surely no one who is intellectually serious can help but notice how students of all stripes arrive at college with shallow and scattered educations, ill-prepared to learn.” The scattered education people have help students out so much more. It’s

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Larry Gelbert, Choosing Classes, Todd Gitlin, Liberal Arts, liberal arts, popular culture, read books, classes students, people don’t, govern ourselves”, little bit,