Pollypinks wrote:Are you serious? Surely, if you are a conservative, you watch Fox News. Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity have to be about as mean spirited, violent button pushing, as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh get. Except neither Beck nor Limbaugh ever went to school, so they make up things about economics that people out there are actually believing.
All of which is just to say you have no substantive knowledge or educational background yourself in any of the issues under discussion here, are in way over your intellectual head (like Ronald), and think that "going to school" necessarily makes one "smart," and actually makes a difference as to what one really knows and the ability to articulate that knowledge.
One does not "go to school" to become knowledgeable, wise, or intelligent; one goes to school either for a credential, vocational training, or a degree in one of the professions (lawying, medicine etc.) As to the humanities/liberal arts, one can achieve all of the above, and, in the present condition of higher education, achieve it to a much deeper and efficacious degree, if one wishes, outside of a formal educational milieu. I have nothing against formal education, indeed, I have several years of it myself. However, as far as the disciplines of the humanities goes, it has little if any relevance to one's actual depth of knowledge, let alone wisdom in light of that knowledge.
