With the growing skills gap and added pressure for corporates and education institutions trying and offer industry-specific training and so called “skill based programs,” there’s an unprecedented opportunity for liberal education.

The knowledge needs of the future must not treat skill based and liberal education as two parallel tracks. Instead, future is the one that blends the two to make a more humane professional.

The age old terminology like soft vs. hard skills inherently undermines the importance of one skill over the other. Its now time that Liberal Education becomes the balance between the power and pedagogy of learning & development.

Every skill is universal: the liberal mindset development of creativity, persuasion and collaboration is as important as learning block chain, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, quantum mechanics and UX design as the perfect combination of a high performer.

The hallmarks of liberal education relevance in current times is as great as well. Let's collaborate and make it become a way of developing the human skills foundation.