At a time when higher education is increasingly focused on job training, what are we losing?
In this conversation, Craig Fahle sits down with Roosevelt Montas and Rishi Jaitly to explore the enduring value of a liberal education—and why it may matter more than ever in the age of AI.
They discuss what it means to develop “full-stack humans,” the difference between learning for a career and learning for a life, and how the humanities help build the judgment, curiosity, and perspective that leadership now demands.
This is a conversation about thinking—what it means, why it matters, and how we cultivate it in a rapidly changing world.
In this episode:
- Why the humanities may be the most durable leadership advantage
- The shift from education as cultivation to education as job training
- What distinguishes a liberal education from a liberal arts major
- The idea of “flourishing” and its role in lifelong learning
- The “full-stack human” and the balance of timely vs. timeless skills
- How Bard is rethinking liberal education and civic life
- A new model for leadership development at Virginia Tech
- Why judgment matters more than information in an age of overload
- What AI reveals about distinctly human intelligence
- Why not everything valuable can—or should—be measured