I always thought that having a liberal atrs degree meant something "artsy fartsy". Nothing wrong with that, I love artsy fartsy. However, I was mistaken.
I recently learned that having a liberal arts education comes from medival times. The term "liberal" meaning free or of free people. People whose walk in life allowed them to think, reason, come to conclusions, reason... The opposite was "servile" or in servitude, as in those who learned a trade, and were in servitude to a master.
In this period in history you were basically born into a station in life and had no way of progressing or "bettering" yourself.
While I'm certainly not putting anyone down who has a trade, I am making the point that the WT would have their own belive this is the only choice, thus compounding thier "servile" state. Discouraging and vilifying "higher learning", in effect says: "Stay in servitude, both to society and to us. Don't improve your thinking skills , count on us to think for you. Don't expand your horizons, 'keep your eyes on the prize'."
So, to all of us who have "seen the light", let's keep learning, let's keep changing, let's keep growing. Let's embrace life and our own humanity. Let's be "liberal" as in free and rejoice in that freedoom, and may we never find ourselves in servitude again!