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The columnist concludes that a university education should emphasize the liberal arts over job-specific technical training. This is because the liberal arts teach reasoning skills that allow one to be intellectually flexible and perform jobs for which one has not been trained.

The columnist assumes that technical training doesn’t also provide these reasoning skills. The columnist also assumes that it is better to be adaptable to jobs for which one is not trained than to be trained specifically for certain jobs. But the two types of jobs aren't necessarily equal--some jobs might demand specialization from the outset--or equally in demand in the job market.

Irrelevant. The columnist doesn't make value claims about \"good\" educations or \"good\" jobs in general, but focuses on practical differences in job preparation offered by two types of education.

This could very well be true, but it doesn’t strengthen the columnist's claim that universities should emphasize a liberal arts education.

Irrelevant. Nothing in the columnist's argument is about the benefits of having few or many jobs.

For this to strengthen, we would have to import the assumption that a liberal arts education leads to a general understanding of life, while a technical education teaches only practical skills. But the columnist never makes either of those claims, so this doesn't strengthen the argument.

This strengthens the colunnist's conclusion by getting rid of the potential weakener that technical education also provides reasoning skills. Thus, it establishes that liberal arts education provides a benefit that technical education does not.

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