Liberal Arts Colleges May Be Facing Collapse. Idea: Don’t Focus On The Frosting

“The No. 1 problem facing liberal arts colleges is demand. An increasing number of people don’t think they are valuable. In the past, people never really thought, ‘What I want is liberal arts education.’ They thought, ‘I want a degree from Williams or Swarthmore.’ Now that more people see college as an investment, asking what they can get out of it, they are choosing vocational majors. “

‘Deep History’ – Searching For The Stories Of Early Humankind

“Distressed by most historians’ overwhelming preoccupation with the modern world, an unusual coalition of scholars is trying to stage an intellectual coup, urging their colleagues to look up from the relatively recent swirl of bloody conflicts, global financial exchanges and technological wonders and gaze further back, toward humanity’s origins.”

Steve Reich On Music History

“But for me, music history basically begins with Gregorian chant then goes to the end of 1750 with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. Then it goes on without me paying much attention until Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Bartok and so on. The entire classical and Romantic period is filled with geniuses that I don’t listen to and from whom I’ve learned absolutely nothing.”