All those required Philosophy courses (15 hours) I took when learning accounting seemed like an interesting but useless burden. Turned out to be some of the most important and useful courses in the whole four years. Learning a skill is not so important, a relatively small part of life. Learning to THINK and appreciate, evaluate and interact with the rest of life is. Even when practicing your skill. As the Jesuits would say, educate the whole person.


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.