Screw liberal arts degrees and their schools. A total waste of time. Insist that your kids get a real degree in engineering, business or a REAL science. Seek out the best college for these degrees where they can be affordably admitted. Yeah, expect them to ACTUALLY WORK while in college.
And since they will have to take the liberal arts garbage, just prepare them to tread water in those courses. The marxist BS spewed out is not the ticket to a good job. Heck, look at those loser profs...would your kids want to live their lives of bitterness?
Screw liberal arts degrees and their schools. A total waste of time.
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I have no degree at all but I don’t believe a true liberal arts education would be a waste of time. Going to school for four years to get a liberal arts degree while learning less than used to be taught in high school is a waste of time. When you have graduates with any sort of degree who cannot even name the three branches of government or give a basic outline description of how this nation came into existence then I would say time and money has been wasted on a phony education.
Fully agreed.
In our increasingly technical world, it boggles the mind that anyone would get a four-year liberal arts degree unless they had one of the following planned:
1. Going on to law school or similar advanced education.
2. Going on to graduate school, with the intention of teaching in the liberal arts field (eg, english lit, art history, etc).
3. Planning on marrying someone with a ‘real’ degree in engineering, medicine, science, etc.
Almost any other plan for the future doesn’t need a liberal arts degree and in fact, a liberal arts degree is simply a way of extending one’s childhood.
I graduated from engineering school in the early 80’s. I quite distinctly remember the liberal arts majors at SUNY partying every weekend (and most nights), chasing tail, etc with wild abandon while I was sweating convolution integrals, linear algebra, circuit analysis, fields and wave and similar coursework with zero power to amuse and attract the chicks.
Come last semester tho... heh heh. Suddenly women figured out who was going to be employed after the four year vacation, and it wasn’t the cool poet with the dreamy, far-away look. It was the nerdy engineer who not only had a job offer, he had multiple job offers! And not for chump wages, but pretty darn good money. Back in ‘84, starting salaries for EE’s was in the high 20’s.
The best job offers for liberal arts types I heard was about $19K.
Revenge was.... sweet.
Best senior-year pickup line I heard from an engineer at a party:
“Hey baby... how would you like to be able to eat every day after graduation?”