The Bell System and a liberal arts education [telecom]

Jun 17, 2010 0 Replies
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The NYT published today an article how in 1952 the Bell System sent its executives back to college to get a liberal arts education. The reason was, "A well-trained man knows how to answer questions, they reasoned; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking."



Bell realized it had many highly trained engineers in its management, but many did not have a humanities background in their training or experience, and it was felt it was desirable.



The article goes on to wonder if such a program would be useful today.



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