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

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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.