The liberal arts certainly aren’t a fix or savior for pandemics, but they do cultivate a sense of meaning beyond achievement. In essence, they help form a certain type of person more than a certain set of skills. The liberal arts can help give resources to students when a job isn’t quite as fulfilling as it once was, or satisfaction in a vocation wanes, or when a pandemic hits. To develop depth as human beings requires slowing down and self-reflection. And the liberal arts cultivate this slowness—a slowness forced upon many when the pandemic shut things down
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