I wonder if that reflects economic uncertainty. A very great shame, since there's a strong tradition of the humanities in Poland and a good rounded education prepares you for many fields of work.
and a good rounded education prepares you for many fields of work.
Yes, that is why our current Prime Minister is a historian by profession. His predecessor, Tusk, is, too. Wow, even our two last Presidents are humanities graduates.
The focus of study has changed. Colleges and uníversíties are expected to become vocational centers which "dispense" job skills and little more. Once a student complained in class that I and the other professors were making too many intellectual demands on him, after all, he maintained, he was studying to be an electrician. At that point, I rose and asked the gentleman whether because he worked for a living with his hands meant he didn't work with his mind:-) As a boy, I remember our workmen were all modestly well-spoken and well-educated!
the other professors were making too many intellectual demands on him
That`s my approach, too - force as much knowledge, ideas and thinking into their poor heads as possible. There is a chance that some of it will stay there forever and give fruit one day
It's sad that fewer people are studying humanities. We need the scientists and mathematicians, however we also need other kinds of thinkers too, and of course art, philosophy and literature don't create themselves.
Usually somehow it only works one way... Noone expects humanity inclined person to be good at physics, chemistry etc. Noone is surprised if an intellectual cannot build a bookshelf...
Btw, forcing people to learn something is usually a very crap strategy and a waste of time
Your intellect is still not intellectual enough to see the irony of your own posts. So, let me help you...Those Nazis were the top 1% on the list of the most educated brains on this planet. They were so sure of their intellectual superiority that they didn't bother to simply add numbers before they fired the first shot.
The super irony: it was the Soviets - unwashed and uneducated - that raped their women and urinated on their graves. Good.
No, will not be playing "global warming" to "climate change" retreat games. You wrote "intellect", we will stay with "intellect". Nazis were full of "intellect" and many other virtues on your list, including the love of music and paintings they would remove from the enemy museums.
No, it does not. Intellect is intellect just like IQ is IQ. What you do with it is another matter. A high IQ of 150 does not become 75 just because you are a murder.
This is one more example of how debating a slippery verbal weasel leads to nowhere.
