re: Should Arts and Humanities Majors be denied Grants and Loans?

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Lost in the anti-liberal arts rabblerousing is that the % of students getting lib arts degrees has been steadily declining for about 40 years. Yet the general public has this fixed idea that colleges are churning out nothing but transgender studies majors. In fact the most popular degree these days, by far, is general business.

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Bingo.

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I think my wife would have I retorted those numbers better than him.

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150k/15k=10

it's a way of presenting data that I was showing ca be done with bias.....the two of you need to keep up,you are slowing the class down.

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English majors with a focus in technical writing make good money

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Friend of mine does this for Deloitte. He's pulling down $200k at thirty-three and is on their partner track. He's also a charismatic Jew.

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general business As worthless as an art degree

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Technology Sales. Five year grind, easy path to $150k+ if you're charismatic and smart. Some guys making a million.

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French Literature, Art History, Asian Studies

worth $60k in debt?

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You're a pleb.

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They do, and it really isn't. Perhaps inside of a limited view of knowledge as a product of data and measurement, sure. But that's not knowledge.

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I'm being dramatic, but the deemphasis of knowledge is a huge problem throughout education. "Knowing" is simply less important than it ever has been in American education.

I made it through a highly rated public high school, a good public university and a top 10 public law school with minimal exposure to classic literature, very little retention of world history, a very incomplete understanding of US history, and very limited foreign language skills.

Now that's not to say I'm truly limited in those areas, but what I have was not obtained through my education, in large part. But that's what happens when you take literature courses where you spend 18 weeks on three works on obscure japanese feminist literature because the professor has largely unlimited discretion in how to conduct a core world literature course.

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Friend of mine does this for Deloitte. He's pulling down $200k at thirty-three and is on their partner track. He's also a charismatic Jew.

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I know a few good catholic girls making that kind of coin as well

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Troll...

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my siblings
160k debt theater arts(he waits tables now)
85k debt psychology(she can't get into grad school, low grades)..works at La Boulange(bakery)

I know, we can't save stupid people from themselves.
But I want to keep Entities from abusing their stupidity to get tax payer dollars.

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Which is the dirty secret. But look, the real problem is not, and never has been, people who go to respectable colleges and graduate with (any) degrees. The problem is people who probably should be going to Delgado instead getting suckered into taking out loans to go to for-profit colleges from which they never graduate and; even if they did, no one would take their degree seriously.

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Doesn't even have to be for profit, but that is the worst offender. But plenty of kids end up in debt 50k or more for a degree from a pretty bad public or private school.

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Technology Sales. Five year grind, easy path to $150k+ if your charismatic and smart. Some guys making a million.

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Agree, if your not an idiot and can play the game.... You can make money with any degree. Just need one person to promote you to director/vp level then you can coast from company to company earning a good salary. It's like joining a club