From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10bjuci$ifl2$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Gary McGath   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   When I went to UC Berkeley, the College of Engineering had a   
   requirement to take a 2-quarter sequence in the humanities.   
   There was a list of choices, with things like English 1A, 1B.   
   What I took was one quarter of Archaelogy and one quarter of   
   Physical Anthropology.  Hey...from an engineering perspective,   
   those both involve people, so Humanities.   
      
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