So many Freepers consider themselves to be oh so practical people. On these kinds of threads you often see admonition after admonition for everyone to drop the major they have and go into the engineering school and you know the reasonL the monetary payoff .
I've often wondered why we don't just drop the advanced education requirements (you know, history, foreign languages, philosopy, and the such) and set up engineering institutes for these people where they won't bothered by such requirements. They clearly cannot differentiate education from job training.
Because this is America? We can choose life as we wish. The mentality is truly scary. Keep the govt out my education. I can thrill my education as I wish.