WSJ snickers at Wes curriculum

johnwesley
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:26:34 +0000

The Wall Street Journal has a heck of a nerve talking about the devalued humanities when everyone knows the biggest impediment to studying humanities today is that a 25 y/o with a Ph.D in English Lit earns a fraction of what someone with an MBA does. Anyone care to guess what they would be worth without areas of specialization? If, all that was required to graduate from Yale was to memorize “The Wreck of The Hesperus” by rote?