A liberal arts education gives you the skill to have a job, he says. But it doesn't teach you how to make a living or contribute to society in meaningful ways. The university has an imperative to equip students to go outandnd be productive members of society and not just earn bread but know what to do with that life. A liberal art major is great - i'm not arguing for one over another. I think our universities are failing as institutions about the decline of humanity's faculties.