"We continue to think that a liberal arts education is valuable in the new economy," said Adam Weinberg, a dean at Colgate.
Once you cut through the competition and differences of opinion laid out in the article, we are still left with pretty good arguments for why arts education is valuable.
In the 18th century, there really weren't that many places where anything even vaguely resembling a modern college education was valuable, and surely many if not most of those places involved preaching.
Surveys in many countries show that poor parents often believe that a few years of schooling have almost no benefit; education is valuable only if you finish secondary school.
Send girls to school but make sure their education is valuable to them: Girls in Kenya that I have worked with have been quite vocal about wanting to learn from each other but haven't had the opportunity to do so in formal education settings.
Investment in health and education is valuable for long-term economic growth and poverty reduction.
In this latter case, we cannot be sure about the extent to which this extra education is valuable to these participants.
The universal assumption is that higher education is valuable, and all governments are pledged to ensure that more and more people receive it.
Families who see education as valuable and therefore work to ensure that their children go to school have children whose numbers of years of education received are higher (relative to other family types).
How can affected students continue their education and valuable on-campus work?
