Dilandu wrote:n7axw wrote:
Thanks. The church mostly picked up the tab on my education. I paid some the first year. But after that, I learned how to shake the scholarship tree and for the remaining time, I didn't pay a dime except books. The entire program was 8 years, four of college and four of seminary. My college degree was in liberal arts with an emphasis in classical languages. Seminary was, obviously enough I guess, in theology, pastoral care, and Bible. What the church got out of the deal was a parish pastor, officially retired, but currently active half time.
Don
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Er... I do not understand: what is liberal arts?
Liberal Arts implies a wide range exposure to various subjects including science, philosophy, ethics, history, etc. Prior to the scientific age, most education was liberal arts. Rather than preparing someone for a specific job, the goal was character formation. If it worked the way it was supposed to, it opened up a person to the world, creating a sense of obligation toward service in that world. I experienced it that way.
I'm afraid that too much education now is job oriented with people more worried about the money they will make rather than than any sense of obligation or, for that matter, awareness of the world outside of their own narrow slice of reality.
Don
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