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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions
Date: 15 Feb 1996 17:06:25 -0600
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In article <4fsujc$[e-mail]>, Grant Reaber <[e-mail]> wrote:
>In article <[e-mail]>, john b  <[e-mail]> wrote:
 >Well I guess that's a good summary of one half of the issue :-).  First
 >of all, a degree is valuable for many reasons that have nothing to do
 >with getting and doing a good job; surely you have heard about the
 >importance of a broad liberal arts education.

Of course we have all heard about it; the liberal arts professors make
sure that we do.  Vast numbers of them would be unemployed if their
subjects were not required of students attempting degrees in other
fields.  However, I have never heard an engineers attribute his success
or happiness in life to some class in "The Emergence of Western
Civilization"; nor have I seen any study that correlates the success or
happiness of graduates with the number of humanities courses completed.

>...  Young degreeless programmers are unlikely to know much about the
>more theoretical and abstract ideas of computer science or about the
>history of computer science.

In my experience, young degreed programmers are also unlikely to know
much about these things, but perhaps not so unlikely as the undegreed.



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Kevin Cline