"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein
A liberal arts education disciplines and trains a man to be free. Vocational training enslaves a man to a skill for which there is no trade. It does not scale. It stays stuck behind whatever wall it builds. But thinking prepares a man for whatever adventure or endeavor may confront him. But even better, it prepares him to develop and discover new adventures and to create new endeavors to confront. Free thinking is expansive. It equips and enables a man to fulfill the cultural mandate to be fruitful and multiply, discipling the earth for the glory of God and His good Name.
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