Harris Miller

Today Harris Miller talked in our class and put fourth the argument that community colleges and job focused higher education will do better for people than our expensive liberal arts education. (makes me feel good) The problem is that they are still underfunded. I dont think that he is completely wrong because if someone is already trained in the area that they want to go into then there is more incentive for the employer to hire them cause of the smaller costs involved in their being hired. I still think that there is a strong case to be made for liberal arts colleges however since they help to produce critical reading, speaking and analytical skills that are necessary in almost every field of employment. He made a good point though about the fact that if liberal arts college students are not able to get jobs then clearly the business (liberal arts colleges) are not being successful and thus will fail the question is can community colleges and trade schools really take their place?