Stanford J. Ungar disagrees with Mike Rose because Ungar believes liberal arts education is something everyone should have in order to have a stable life and a good career. Ungar believes higher education is worth it, when an individual’s job requires other tasks rather than just one task that the individual may have knowledge in. In other words, Ungar says everyone needs to be flexible in what they have knowledge in or are trained in. Everyone thinks that liberal arts education is a waste of money and that there will never be job opportunities in those fields. Ungar disproves this when he states, “An astounding 89 percent said they were looking for more emphasis on ‘the ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing,’ and almost as …show more content…
This is why having an education at a broad level is very important. Being focused on one thing will make a person closed-minded and will not let them build good qualities. Having a broad education is believed to give people good qualities including leadership qualities. Ungar wants people to know that there are jobs out there that will take people with a liberal arts degree because companies like people who are flexible and have knowledge in more than one topic. Rose explains how intelligence and education are not the same when he says, “Intelligence is closely associated with formal education—the type of schooling a person has, how much and how long—and most people seem to move comfortably from that notion to a belief that work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence” (Rose 247). Rose strongly believes that one person could have intelligence and not education or vise versa. He believes that education is not necessary in order to be intelligence because people can learn a lot by themselves without having a college