Is college too easy?

[August West]

I have to agree with Grace62 about the importance of a broad based education, regardless of specialization. I know many liberal arts majors who are highly successful, both financially and in terms of contentment. Even those with highly specialized educations benefit from the critical thinking skills associated with the liberal arts. I am acquainted with MDs who have returned to school to study liberal arts and then pursue bioethics careers. I have an extremely successful friend who studied the liberal arts and now works in Manhattan producing web sites for the world's top entertainment companies. Another writes and directs some of the highest budgeted television shows in LA. All these people directly attribute a portion of their success to their liberal arts education and I venture that their financial situation would make many forum members envious. I think the opinions here that assume a liberal arts education is of lesser value than something more highly specialized are wrong, and may have likely come from those who did not receive a strong liberal arts education.