From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 10/1/25 2:58 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I am reminded of a friend who was explaining why he didn't know   
   >> something one would learn in a world history course (maybe about the   
   >> Protestant Reformation or something), and said it was because he went to   
   >> a trade school. When asked what school it was, he said, "MIT."   
   >   
   > MIT used to do a somewhat abbreviated version of the Great Books program,   
   > but that kind of ended with WWII, I think.   
   >   
   > In four years you can't really teach someone to be a good engineer, you   
   > can only teach them the things they need to know in order to learn to be   
   > a good engineer.  There's not much time to teach them the things they need   
   > to know to be a good person.   
      
   When I went to MIT, there was a humanities requirement, but it was   
   rather minimal. The freshman year there was something called "Conflict   
   and Community in America," which consisted of rather unfocused   
   discussions of recent books. After that I took mostly music courses when   
   I could. The one-semester course on opera crammed the entire nineteenth   
   century into the last day.   
      
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   Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com   
      
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