article on drop in humanities/arts majors

Vanagandr
Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:50:10 +0000

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.



Do you hear that? It is the sound of the world’s smallest violin. Boo freakin’ hoo, that’s how the world works, so unless you are willing to pay me an engineer’s salary to sit on my butt for the rest of my life, do not disparage economics.

That said, learning and education outside of the university in the same subject has become much more accessible. It is not forbidden to purchase an older edition of a text to teach one’s self for one’s enjoyment, and there is plenty of material online.

As for this foolishness about pursuing one’s interest as a job, I do not know where to begin debunking that absurdity. If a liberal arts degree is so good at that, their interest must be waiting in the unemployment lines.

scout59 - my grandfather taught me about the purpose of investments, it has served me well. My younger brothers did not and they are starting to ask me for money since I have a job.