article on drop in humanities/arts majors

loveday2
Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:14:46 +0000

This insulation results in a lack of understanding of the basic economics surrounding a degree, i.e. that if I am going to be investing four years’ opportunity cost and tens of thousands of dollars, it bloody well better be producing a return.

What’s sad in all of this is the “economics.” Any time we’re forced to quantify learning and education in terms of cost and earnings, it’s just sad. The more we must, the further backwards in time we go to the days when education was solely the folly of the wealthy elite.