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Originally Posted by arpad_m
I'm not saying everything is of equal importance everywhere, far from it, just that we need to have a broad mindset about declaring skills "essential". (For the record, of course I'm also totally against any frivolous junk that is peddled as highly valuable.)
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I think right there is the problem. Far too many subjects are considered essential when they are not. There are far more elective requirements today than there used to be. Universities need to quit indoctrinating students with copious amounts of frivolous information.
I had a big problem being required to take arts and humanities classes for my engineering degree. To me they were absolutely wasted classes, a waste of my time when I could have been working on my projects, and I told my professors flat out their class was a waste of time and I'm only there because I'm required to be. I got straight Cs and didn't care.
I guess you and I will see this very differently.