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applegrove

(118,734 posts) Sat Feb 18, 2017, 09:22 PM Feb 2017

CUBAN: Don't go to school for finance liberal arts is the future

by Abby Jackson at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-liberal-arts-is-the-future-2017-2

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Cuban: No, no. I think that won't matter. What are you going to go back and learn to do?

Johnson: What it takes, right? Whether it's finance, whether it's software programming.

Cuban: No finance. That's the easiest thing — you just take the data have it spit out whatever you need. I personally think there's going to be a greater demand in 10 years for liberal arts majors than there were for programming majors and maybe even engineering, because when the data is all being spit out for you, options are being spit out for you, you need a different perspective in order to have a different view of the data. And so having someone who is more of a freer thinker.

Cuban's forecast of the skills needed to succeed in the future echoes that of computer science and higher education experts who believe people with "soft skills," like adaptability and communication, will have the advantage in an automated workforce.

Cuban highlighted English, philosophy, and foreign language majors as just some of the majors that will do well in the future job market.

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CUBAN: Don't go to school for finance liberal arts is the future (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2017 OP

I can see that GP6971 Feb 2017 #1

As somebody Turbineguy Feb 2017 #2

That was my degree focus, and it was well worth the effort bhikkhu Feb 2017 #3

GP6971

(31,189 posts)

1. I can see that

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Feb 18, 2017, 09:25 PM

Feb 2017

I would also recommend any major in international studies (excluding language).

Turbineguy

(37,359 posts)

2. As somebody

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Feb 18, 2017, 09:31 PM

Feb 2017

who took a pretty hardcore engineering curriculum.... I agree. The first thing is to get an education. Then, learn a skill. The wonders of a good education are legion. You can converse with anybody. You're connected to the Universe.

They used to call it a "classical education".

Nobody tells kids why they are in school. Why keep it a secret? It's so you can walk out into the World and have some understanding of what's going on. On this Planet and in the Universe.

bhikkhu

(10,720 posts)

3. That was my degree focus, and it was well worth the effort

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Feb 18, 2017, 09:37 PM

Feb 2017

I've heard it disparaged sometimes as a thing that leads to no employment opportunities, but there is a great value in being able to think, write and communicate well, and to understand people and the world in general. I was working toward a masters in education before dropping it, as there were no jobs. But that was hoping to transition out of a blue collar job, and in the end I found my job was not so bad, and that what I learned in college allowed me to be much better at it.

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