1.) Richard M. Freeland, a president of Northeastern University and a nationalist leader in education had this to say, “I believe that the endless rehashing of those tired arguments revels serious failure of imagination on the part of academics and an abrogation of responsibilities of our students (258).” To give more context, Freeland is discussing the way universities views have been, that of the Liberal Arts and that of the Job Industry. He feels like it is crazy that we are even arguing about this in the first place. He wants it just for the business aspect or the brace taxes if you will. And personally I think he’s wrong. The first couple years in the university should be liberal arts, guiding and giving you time to build and work on certain skill. Then in come the later years and hit em’ with the business per say. Like “this what we’ve been working towards,” type feeling. I feel of relief. A balance in everything.
2.) Personally I think Boyer would totally agree with the bridge idea. He would even go as far as even to it himself. As someone who is pro liberal arts as he his, he would have an easy time figuring it out. However, the only issue is how do you convince the other majors to do the same. Like Boyer said, “we need to be enriched.” We should have take some philosophy class to better understand things and ourselves. Going back to Jeffery Scheuer, it will help make us a better well rounded member in society that way.
