Is UT=Ivy of Texas?

ag54
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:55:55 +0000

If you are seriously trying to argue that majors in education, sociology, communications, political science, psychology, athletic training, are equal in utility provided to society when compared with engineering, computer science, chemistry, and other math intensive majors then you are clearly deluded.



For the biased “math nerd”:

Go back to your 1-3rd grade teachers who taught you basic math facts, then your 4-5 grade teachers who taught you the fundamentals of algebra, then your middle-high school teachers who built higher conceptual math skills onto the basics you were taught previously, and tell them that education majors are worthless. You wouldn’t be in the UT engineering school without them, not to mention your English, history, economics and foriegn language teachers.

As to the others, there is a place in society for people with all the majors you pooh-pooh, and it would be an extremely colorless and bland world if everyone was like you.

zlc, thank you for your nuanced, open minded, and factual post.