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To: chrisser

My idea......no more student loans for liberal arts. If you want student loans it’s gotta be science, business, engineering, etc Economically useful majors only. That will help reduce the influence of Commies in Academia, Stop the growth of default on ever larger student loans and provide a lot more people with the skills companies actually need.


4 posted on 07/18/2018 11:57:11 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird
My idea......no more student loans for liberal arts. If you want student loans it’s gotta be science, business, engineering, etc Economically useful majors only.

This is a… misdirected idea.
You see, despite all the clamor about the STEM-shortage it's quite difficult to get a job in STEM [certainly things like programming] because it's not about an actual shortage, it's really about employers being unwilling to pay market wages, instead opting for importation of H1B visa-holders or 'poaching' from other companies. See this book for the hiring aspect.

But, in addition to this, much of our problems with the culture war are because conservatives simply rolled over and died on the arts. I mean, ask it this way: who's going to have more impact? An engineer who puts in his time doing solid work for twenty years, or a teacher indoctrinating children for twenty years? — the current culture war clearly shows the massive impact that sustained, forced, multi-generational indoctrination has had on our society.

6 posted on 07/18/2018 12:48:20 PM PDT by Edward.Fish
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