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Another kind of military intelligence
When people hear the term "liberal arts" they may think of ivy-covered halls, tweed-coated professors with pipes, and casually-dressed students studying on the quad. But What Will They Learn.com suggests that the best place to get a liberal arts education is ... a military school. The study gives only 16 "A" grades in the nation, and two of those go to the US Military and Air Force Academies. The Naval Academy in Annapolis barely misses and finishes with a "B."
It may not be surprising to see military schools requiring math and science; but something is going on when it's West Point, not UC Berkley, that requires students to take a literature class, or when the Air Force Academy is more insistent that their students take a writing class than Yale is.
Even state-run military colleges such as The Citadel do well in the study; all told, the eight Senior Military Colleges included in the study (a list that includes the three academies, The Citadel, Virginia Military Institute, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, and North Georgia) require an average of 4.9 of the seven classes, well above the national average of just 3.0.
Posted by Eric Markley on August 17, 2010 at August 17, 2010 05:56 PM
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