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TECHNOLOGY COLUMN | Kamyshev: Tech. requirement would enhance Yale education

Published Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The aim of a liberal arts education is to equip students with transposable skills useful in any career. The skills a liberal arts education emphasizes change based on the current state of society. The original skills were grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. From those, we’ve kept grammar and logic and added requirements for science, humanities, foreign languages and the social sciences. Times are once again changing, and it is high time to add a new skills requirement in technology.

In the last two decades, we have seen the computers change the way...

#1 By (Anonymous) 2:18p.m. on April 5, 2009

Interesting idea. I'm not sold yet, but I'd like to hear more thoughts on this.

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