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This is the humanities core of liberal arts education. Logic (embedded in philosophy), composition/writing (rhetorical structures & patterns), awareness of what happened before & how it worked out (history), how we encounter it all embedded w/in representation/media (literature). https://twitter.com/WWEDanielBryan/status/1325582166063919106
There's more to core than philosophy, writing, history, & literature. Basic science emphasizing the scientific method, skepticism, & reproducibility (& functional knowledge about how the body the planet work). Math/stats to understand how scale and prediction/risk are discussed.
&, certainly not least, its essential to study "non-western" approaches to knowledge & life & not pretend that the Euroamerican episteme has it right (results show it doesn't) & that power dramatically skews human knowledge & thriving not always or even most often for the better.
But none of this narrowly translatable to "meeting state workforce needs" or "entrepreneurship" of Bureau of Labor statistics so...
I feel like this thread is about to get legs so if you have anything to spare, please help me keep the doors open at this non-profit parent cooperative nursery school that's near and dear to me and my community. (Tax deductible donations.) https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/tenneynursery
