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A liberal arts curriculum and a broad reading list are important to critical thinking.
(Shannon Jensen for The New York Times)


I've been thinking about this after reading Fareed Zakaria's smart new book, "In Defense of a Liberal Education." Like Zakaria, I think that the liberal arts teach critical thinking (not to mention nifty words like "heuristic").

So, to answer the skeptics, here are my three reasons the humanities enrich our souls and sometimes even our pocketbooks as well.

First, liberal arts equip students with communications and interpersonal skills that are valuable and genuinely rewarded in the labor force, especially when accompanied by technical abilities.

Starving for Wisdom

APRIL 16, 2015


Nicholas Kristof


"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom."

That epigram from E.O. Wilson captures the dilemma of our era. Yet the solution of some folks is to disdain wisdom.

"Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists?" Rick Scott, the Florida governor, once asked. A leader of a prominent Internet company once told me that the firm regards admission to Harvard as a useful heuristic of talent, but a college education itself as useless.

Parents and students themselves are acting on these principles, retreating from the humanities. Among college graduates in 1971, there were about two business majors for each English major. Now there are seven times as many. (I was a political science major; if I were doing it over, I'd be an economics major with a foot in the humanities.)

silingan ba ni sa tutho street?

the problem with facebook is that it's more face than book.

great prevention tips.  doable, really.  it's safer not to leave things to chance.  honestly, i got scared reading this.  thanks, bai hubs.

mas ngilngig pod sa loay nga nagmantinir lang ug hotel balintong.

The Philippines' national flag is the only flag which may be hoisted inverted when the Congress of the Philippines has declared a "state of war".


PEACETIME




STATE OF WAR

Zimbabwe

Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)

Vietnam

Venezuela

Uzbekistan

United States of America

Tuvalu

Turkmenistan

Turkey

Tunisia

Togo

Timor-Leste

Syria

Suriname

Somalia

Solomon Islands

Senegal

Sao Tome and Principe

Samoa

St. Kitts and Nevis

Puerto Rico

Philippines

Papua New Guinea

Panama

Pakistan

New Zealand

Morocco

Micronesia

Mauritania

Liberia

North Korea

Jordan

Israel

Honduras

Guinea Bissau

Grenada

Ghana

Djibouti

Cuba

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Comoros

People's Republic of China

Chile

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 16, 2015, 10:11:58 PM
Saba diha. Kaklaro aning Bisaja...

puwes, cebuano na jamo, du!

Central African Republic

Cape Verde

Cameroon

Burkina Faso

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Azerbaijan

Australia

Aruba

national flags with star/stars

Algeria

Uganda

Tunisia

Portugal

Paraguay

Niger

Laos

Kyrgyzstan

South Korea

Kazakhstan

Iran

India

Greenland

Burundi

Brazil

Belize

Argentina

other national flags with a round shape (or seal) in the middle and backgrounds that are not plain


Afghanistan

Palau

Bangladesh

there are only three national flags in the world with a plain colored round shape in the middle against a plain background.

Japan

it would be great if this primer is translated into different languages and posted online as well.  surely the dfa can very well do that.

ehehehe, fayn by me.  sakto ang spelling sa egg ug patties.  maglisod lang gyod kog order sa putlong.  btw, okay pod ang presyo kay at least dili roman numerals.

hinaot wa ni sa visayas ug mindanao.  tua unta ni sa laing dapit, sama sa marshall islands o papua new guinea ba kaha.

gang of barbarians leader Youssouf Fofana

Ruth Halimi, the mother of Ilan Halimi (C) arrives at the Paris courthouse for minors on April 29, 2009 in Paris, at the opening of the trial of Youssouf Fofana and 27 other members of his gang of barbarians. (http://www.vosizneias.com/)

hinaot naapil sa kalitson ang nagbuhat nitong karumaldumal na krimen.

i won't mind having dinner in a place whose notices have the correct spelling.

i remember long ago...

a cebu mediaman (an editor) featured a student prostitute in a sting operation... the man (policeman) was on top of her, in the very act of you-know-what.  instead of covering out her eyes with black ink (as was usual then to hide someone's identity; pixelating was not in vogue yet), that editor deliberately blackened her mouth instead.  the girl's exposed eyes of surprise, looking directly at the camera, gave her identity away.  the editor was after the paper's sales anyway, and he got it.  never mind ethics.

would that no boholano media practitioner is as mercenary.   

thanks, bai hubs.  wa baya ta ka witki ha?  how defensive naman of me.  and of you, hihihi.

na-shock gyod hinoon ko.  i teared up a bit looking at that face in your original post.  what if he were someone i knew?  how did his relatives react looking at that image?

he must have seen hell prior.

“Patunay ang mga pagpapahayag na ito ng suporta na kahit maraming bansa ang hindi nagpapakita ng pagkiling sa mga isyung panteritoryo, sumusuporta pa rin sila sa pangkalahatang direksiyon ng polisiya ng Pilipinas sa usaping WPS.”

(These statements of support are proof that while many nations do not have a position on territorial issues, they support the general direction of the Philippine policy on the WPS.).

The DFA urged ordinary Filipinos to also support the move.

“Sa anumang alitan, pinakamainam na solusyon ang nakabase sa katuwiran, na siyang pagdedesisyunan ng isang partidong walang kinikilingan. Bago mahuli ang lahat, nagpasya ang Pilipinas na harapin sa hukuman ang Tsina, upang ipagtanggol at pangalagaan ang karapatan nito at ng mga susunod na salinlahi ng Pilipino.”

(In any argument, the best solution is one based on reason, that an impartial party will decide on. Before it’s too late, the Philippines decided to face China in court to defend and protect its rights, and the rights of the next generations of Filipinos.) â€" Rappler.com

Why support arbitration?

The DFA also sought to explain its legal strategy of going to arbitration, which drew both support and criticism as legal and foreign policy experts debate on the implications of the Philippines’ move against Asia’s rising superpower.

The primer though said that many scholars support the Philippines’ tack of using international law to resolve the dispute.

It added that influential countries like the US, Japan, India, Australia, the European Union and the G7 bloc gave statements of support for the Philippine position.

It stated that the line overlaps with 80% of the Philippines’ EEZ and continental shelf, and those of Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.

“Walang batayan sa UNCLOS ang nine-dash line ng Tsina at hindi nakatutulong sa adhikain ng mga bansa na bigyan ng solusyong pangmatagalan at makabuluhan ang sapawan sa mga sonang pandagat,” the primer stated.

(China’s 9-dash line has no basis in UNCLOS, and it does not help the objective of nations to find a durable and meaningful resolution to maritime disputes.)

 
MARITIME ENTITLEMENTS. A screenshot of the DFA primer explaining the maritime entitlements under the law of the sea treaty. Courtesy: DFA, PCDSPO

The primer then explained the different maritime entitlements under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the treaty the Philippines uses to question China’s expansive sea claims. Both the Philippines and China are parties to UNCLOS.

These entitlements include the exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which provides a state the exclusive right to explore and exploit natural resources like fish and oil 200 nautical miles from its baselines.

The primer said that instead of abiding by UNCLOS, China insists on using its 9-dash line to assert “indisputable sovereignty” over the South China Sea.