Putting Liberal Arts in an equal level to Science and Engineering is an offense to all the hard working engineers and scientists, and would explain why we are graduating less and less scientists and engineers and lacking behind the rest of the world. For any nation to maintain superiority it needs scientists and engineers, needs them to innovate, to manufacture and to advance the standard of living of its people! If you study any economical breakthrough of any nation, it was accomplished through science and engineering, not by dancing and singing their way to prosperity.Liberal Arts is composed of pointless stuff like Music, Psychology, Dance, Philosophy, Languages, Literature, Art and Drama! Good luck conquering the world with that! Good luck maintaining military and economic superiority with that!
Any country that wants to rule, economically or militarily, needs a strong innovative state-of- the-art manufacturing industry. In the times of war and peace you need technology, to create jobs, attract minds and maintain your grip on the rest of the world.
If a nation has an advanced technology, that another nation needs, it literally is in control of the other nation, that will never be the case with Liberal Arts, and usually I don't tend to take anything 'Liberal' seriously.