The repeated attacks on liberal education in the media and from politicians require ammunition in response. Here's some :
“… when Jobs was creating the first Mac a decade after that calligraphy class, he remembered the lessons of that class and applied them. “If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts,” Jobs recounted. “Since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them.” Katrina Trinko in USA Today on February 6th 2013 “Don’t Zero in On Math and Science”
http://www.packersnews.com/article/20130207/GPG0706/302070137