http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/10/busting-the-myth-bowdoin-college-the-liberal-arts-and-the-path-to-a-career-in-anything/ A repository for Bowdoin news archives Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.11 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/10/busting-the-myth-bowdoin-college-the-liberal-arts-and-the-path-to-a-career-in-anything/comment-page-1/#comment-120296 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 02:05:30 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=139049#comment-120296 Dear Bowdoin, this is a very interesting piece. I’m an Fall 2018 applicant and I am from Bangladesh. Please allow me to share an idea. While I think that the pro-active posture that the colleges asserts here is meaningfull, I think that when interests assert that their position is somehow flawed or less than optimal, such as racial relations, or the place and value of a liberal arts education over that of a norrowly defined, one-subject confine that former President Joseph McKeen warned against in his inagural address to the school’s Board and Founding members, then you perpetuate those biases or less-than-perfect perspectives. Talk is only talk, and words aren’t actions. A more progressive slant here would have retitled this article to promote how a Liberal Arts educations enabled Bowdoin’s graduates to excell in their careers, and the more meaningful those careers have been as a result of their diversified educational base. Be Positive, Be Confident, Be Progressive.

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