It’s very difficult to enforce it.
You can gauge it out during interviews and essay reviews and factor it in while examining applicants. However, this requires an organic cultural shift within the educational institutions.
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Me at 18 only cared about technology. I was "forced" to take an arts class, I think it was a world music class, I guess I was fun, but I couldn't tell you a thing I learned in those classes. Between that class and western history were my only A+ of my college career XD
That’s hilarious,
We were required to take an arts class too, it was about writing music and the final assignment was that we had to submit an original composition. Here’s mine if you want to listen.
In the US, public schools are so mind numbing that it isn't a mystery why so many college students are uninspiring. They were first uninspired and broken down by the state to meet the level of the lowest common denominator. Everything is for a corporate testing company.
Personally was never in "public" schooling but it still guided all of our courses, but yeah it's a machine. No wonder I rebelled so hard. Even the college I went to has something over 50% of graduates get federal government (or gov contractor) jobs. I think everyone I know and their families from school is government employed.
This isn't feasible unless the broader culture actually values this. They don't. Most colleges would go broke doing this.
It's a self-feeding mechanism that is tough to break. Frankly, I think the best chance we currently have is to get the best people in we can and then expose them to the stuff during the program. People then have to choose for themselves. Hopefully the broader culture will change over time. I do think private (and leaner) colleges would have a good chance of making this work though.
It's a complex issue, but I agree with the intent.
I fully agree. But talking about it raises awareness, and then we’ll take more steps into changing the broader culture as you said.
Absolutely. And I don't think it has to be all or nothing. Colleges can have small programs on the side for excellent students.
Unfortunately, most of my college experience was just as uninspiring as all my years in public government schools. We need a complete rebuild for college systems. At least in the US. The whole thing is poisoned. They need to fix themselves before they can try to fix the applicants or expect them to value the humanities. Hell, how many colleges even value those things anymore?