From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Dec 25 2001 - 00:56:15 MST
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> "Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> > > Anders: Don't take it wrong, but your engineering perspective makes you miss a
> > > reference that is glaringly obvious to anyone involved in philosophy,
> > > especially political philosophy.
> >
> > Anders, Anders, Anders... the *average* person has virtually no education
> > in "philosophy" (at least here in America).
>
> Roger that. Anders and Greg Burch have helped me realize that what
> we call higher education in the states is actually mostly vocational training.
> Engineering, accounting, computer science, etc are obvious examples,
> but if one looks at the other majors available in a typical American
> college, they are nearly all direct job training. Indeed, philosophy has
> come to be looked upon with undisguised disdain in many academic
> circles. spike
Considering that many philosophy classes and a lot of
"humanities" classes at universities I have attended were being
led by people who had read less in the field[s] than I had, it
seemed a distinct waste of time to me. Of course I didn't go to
college until many years after high school, when I was as
"well-rounded" as I ever intended to be.
- samantha
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