Re: Carleton Fiorina Message #15 Posted by Les Wright on 9 May 2012, 9:03 p.m., in response to message #1 by John W Kercheval
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Terrible HP leader & that college degree in Medieval Studies did not help much.
Hey! One of my degrees is in music. I focussed more on academics than performance (I really am a pedestrian musician), specifically Baroque, Renaissance, and Mediaeval repertoire. I especially enjoyed the latter. All quite enjoyable and edifying.
It scarcely qualifies me to lead a huge tech corporation, I'll admit. But I have to say that, notwithstanding that most of my specifically career-oriented education has been in scientific disciplines, I do get my shorts in a twist when anyone in maths, sciences, or professions disparages the arts or humanities as less worthy of scholarly attention. I remember in early medical school the biochemistry professor telling us that memorizing the Krebs cycle may never be directly relevant to daily medical practice for almost all physicians, but the process of learning something complicated properly and in depth was a worthy mental exercise and a lesson in life. Funnily enough, this is exactly how I feel about the hours I spent in getting a basic reading knowledge of mediaeval Occitan or analyzing the structure of Machaut's motets. Even funnier, I have long forgotten my Krebs cycle, but never Machaut.
Les
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