You're entitled to your opinion, but that doesn't mean that you right and others wrong.  There are millions of people who prefer to use college to develop their general knowledge of the world and critical thinking skills, rather than simply to obtain job training for a profession they may not even want to pursue 10 years down the road.  Even in the business world, I think you'd be surprised to learn how many top executives at major companies majored in the liberal arts, rather than business, while in undergrade.

I'm pursuing graduate study at Ohio in part because I couldn't imagine spending the rest of my life teaching high school, which I did for a year.  

2 things I heard ad nauseum as a fulltime teacher......those that can learn and those that can't teach....as well as you get a 3 month paid vacation.

I wish I would have known these intellectual maxims before I entered and finished a 5 year educational doctoral program....which by the way gave me no increase in salary.

I would say you're new school. Old school in my book would be you go to a university to better yourself personally and intellectually and a higher salary is a benefit of that process. New school is--unfortunately--that universities are nothing more than glorified vocational schools.

I have degrees in Geography and in Political Science and I do not regret my liberal arts-oriented education for a second. I took classes ranging from biology to industrial technology to yes, classics and world religions. Some of my liberal arts courses were the most difficult for me as they required complex thinking skills and in-depth research. On the other hand, solving a math problem has always been easy for me.

I think the following article sums it up pretty well: http://www.thehighschoolgraduate.com/editorial/FL/liberal...

This is an interesting thread.

Here intellectuals go to Indiana and Farmers go to Purdue. I can't see that much difference across the line as my farmer friends from vets to county agents are State grads. That is at least the way I have heard the stories for years. My take is that I am up north of 70  and surrounded by corn, beans and Purdue hats riding combines and tractors on table top flat fields for the better and hotter parts of the year while the other 8 months those folks are sitting in the diner complaining because they don't get no respect from the pot smokers in Bloomington. Does not help that during the months basketball is played and discussed here those folks are all congregated around the one round table in each of those diners with nothing else to do but flap their gums about PU and Painter. I don't really care for either one over the other and do backflips for joy when I see our individual boys in the NCAA's or when the state has multiple entries in the tourney. .

Funny take on things. Had a friend go to Dartmouth for a liberal arts degree. He ain't any smarter nor is he what I would call a critical thinker. Can't even figure out why to zone on an out of bounds under the basket.

Anyway I was just reading this and looked over at my magazine I just picked up and remembered that I wanted to look this up and post it here.  

blogs.forbes.com/sciencebiz/2011/02/15/get-football-out-of-our-universities/

What's the similarity between the FBI, CIA and Purdue?

Delbobcat:
In response to your comment on solving math problems being easy.
Just wondering what level of math you're refering to.
I don't know too many people,including myself, who thought solving the problems in Differential Equations or Linear Algebra were easy .
 

I agree 100% that  both exercises do require intellectual capacity and effort.

I was lucky,research and writing papers came naturally to me .Believe it or not,engineers,especially in grad school,have to write a lot of papers.My problem was never the paper,but the *&^%$#@ footnotes.

 

I flew on N2000U during the summer in 2000 and while it was nice to fly private, the plane itself wasn't anything special or overly luxurious.  For students I imagine it's a VERY nice aircraft and a great asset to the aviation program.



Pardon the pun, but the plane doesn't even register on the radar of the lowest level plane in the fleet I used to help optimize at Flight Options.  Those jets and amenities are what I would associate with "excessive," not the King Airs of Ohio University.

OP, are you sure the university doesn't still have the 200?  Just a coincidence that it landed at KUNI last week?

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N200U