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Not for profit: why education needs the humanities : Comments
By Martha Nussbaum, published 15/8/2011If educational trends continue nations all over the world will soon be producing generations of useful machines, rather than complete citizens who can think for themselves.
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There was an excellent article recently in The Australian where businesses are now requiring more than just technical skills and abillity.
They are finding that graduates, while generally ok as useful machines, lack the fairy floss of relating to other human beings and being able to think for themselves.
Simple and basic things like working as a team, thinking solutions through, being cooperative with others outside the terms of their performance management agreement, asking for help when stumped with a problem outside their sandpit or even being polite on the phone.
If there is not a written procedure much less a precedent for it they come to a grinding halt.
Having experienced this first hand in the corporate financial world, it is not surprising that some universities have already responded to business calls to provide a more rounded education by including a commensurate amount of fairy floss with the machine oil.