article on drop in humanities/arts majors

loveday2
Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:33:52 +0000

I know you weren’t responding to me, but I agree. I didn’t mean for my post to reduce it to dollars and cents. I think there is inherent value in almost every area of study at the university, and wish I had the time and money (and in some cases possibly the aptitude) to study many of them myself.

Amen. I’m acknowledging and lamenting the sad, sad reality. I truly don’t view various types of studies as superior to others. I love diversity, and believe the world thrives on it. But what I see happening is the diminishing ability of parents to say to their children what my parents were able to say to me: “Go, discover your interests, and pursue them.” I realize I was fortunate, that all families couldn’t do this even back then. But I had hoped by the time I had children MORE families would be able to, not FEWER. What I see is that we’ve digressed to FEWER and I don’t see any signs of this turning around!