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2006-04-26 - 5:58 p.m.

Our esteemed President, in a recent visit to my institute of higher learning said that universities need to stop with the humanities and prepare kids for technical jobs. "Face it," he said, "we've got to have a different set of skills. History may not cut it. Math and science are going to be vital to make sure that this country educates the engineers, the chemists, the
physicists—the types of folks that [executives] are going to be looking for
to hire."

In addition to having no grasp of history (despite majoring in it himself) and how it might help to understand the possible reaction of certain people when attacked... Apparently he's also not aware that lots of big business companies higher humanities folks. HP's CEO was a history major (not that she's gone great things for HP in her tenure, but still...).

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