> But I also suspect the liberal arts have lost a lot by not requiring a tho...

		jellicle on Oct 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Biographer: Jobs refused early and potentially lif... > But I also suspect the liberal arts have lost a lot by not requiring a thorough knowledge of the hard science as a foundation. Okay, but how? 10-year Bachelor's degrees? Part of the reason why the world is getting more specialized is that there is more knowledge out there to be known. A thorough knowledge of the hard sciences is not something you can squeeze into a semester.

Exactly. Cramming such amounts of knowledge into every individual is terribly inefficient.