Dean's Message
Pakistani students today, even if “well-educated” in the popular sense, seem to lack the skills of critical thinking, creativity, empathy, listening, civic sense, and an overall awareness of their place in today’s world as human beings and as Pakistanis. A liberal arts education not only aims to provide these skills, but also to give these younger individuals practical benefits and an edge over their competitors.
In an essay that appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 2016, entitled “Digital Companies Need More Liberal Arts Majors,” Tom Perrault argued that technological skills like data analysis and decoding, which are much in demand now, are going to be taken away from humans and will be done more and more by computers in the future. But what computers cannot do, at least in the foreseeable future, is to be creative, empathetic, attentive, and visionary like human beings.