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The Humanities Are in Crisis: Students are turning to degrees they think yield better job prospects.
The Atlantic ^ | 08/25/2018 | Benjamin Schmidt

Posted on 08/26/2018 6:19:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

I think Equifax should hire a music major to be their Chief Security Officer. Oh, wait ........... never mind!


61 posted on 08/26/2018 8:59:12 AM PDT by utax
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To: EC Washington

Maybe people are abandoning college degrees.


62 posted on 08/26/2018 9:01:16 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: The Antiyuppie

On your other comment, I recall that our band/music teachers were the second best paid school employees next to the superintendent

Because they were smart enough to finish school with teaching credentials.

As for me, I learned music in the bars. As a youngster there were times I was making more off the guitar than Uncle Sam paid me but I never tried to make a living off it.

Made a couple dozen fiddles and several mandolins after retirement, still have a rental fleet, do some repair, and still gig a couple times a month. I have to admit the liberal arts degree did help get me promoted in the military but any degree would have at the time.


63 posted on 08/26/2018 9:04:51 AM PDT by CMSMC
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To: SeekAndFind

Underwater basket weaving


64 posted on 08/26/2018 9:05:43 AM PDT by cp124 (FUGOPe)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Humanities Are in Crisis: Students are turning to degrees they think yield better job prospects.

The "humanities" today are a monstrous fraud.
Specially, lower education brainwashes the young, and "higher education" cements the educationally crippled.

I was educated "officially" a decade before the "Great Change," now mystified as STEM.
I will challenge my ownership of the benefits of the necessity of grasping the humanities against any millennial or "safe place" uneducated moron, even if obtained through autodidactism.

65 posted on 08/26/2018 9:28:18 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: SeekAndFind

Humanities use to teach Western Civilization - now they teach liberal ‘fashion ideas’ of the moment.

It’s a waste of student money... Kids must be smarter than I thought if they’re dumping this stuff...


66 posted on 08/26/2018 9:35:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (ANYONE asking YOU to be violent is an FBI undercover cop or thug from the SPLC - YOU are warned...)
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To: johniegrad
A point almost completely lost on posters at FreeRepublic. Thanks for bringing it up.

Careful.
That's the third rail around this place.
One of those delusionals will criticize you for confusing a partial URL for the name of this place, but can't be bothered to spell "bait" or "four" correctly.

67 posted on 08/26/2018 9:46:41 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: Drango

BFL


68 posted on 08/26/2018 9:47:33 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Obama's "Remaking of America" continues apace in the absence of effective political opposition.)
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To: Drango

Right and the various Ethnic Studies. There should be a price to pay for the bogus degrees.


69 posted on 08/26/2018 9:54:21 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: subterfuge
Gosh. Thanks so much Johnnie. So superior, you are.

..and thank you, Yoda, for that bit of cereal box wisdom...

70 posted on 08/26/2018 9:54:30 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: The Antiyuppie

When I worked for EDS, they didn’t hire Computer Science majors. They wanted to hire people with other kinds of degrees, so they could train them to code the way they wanted them to code.

They figured with CS majors, they’d have to ‘unlearn’ everything they were taught.


71 posted on 08/26/2018 9:57:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Truthsearcher
Maybe people are abandoning college degrees.

It seems men are. Whenever I went to an orientation with my daughter, it was almost 80% girls there.

72 posted on 08/26/2018 9:59:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: johniegrad; SauronOfMordor

A balance of liberal arts WITH a technical or science education USED to be normal...


73 posted on 08/26/2018 10:01:45 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"....Declines have hit almost every field in the humanities (with one interesting exception)...."

"....While history, English, and the rest have faded, only one set of humanities fields without a foot in the sciences has clearly held its own: the much newer (and smaller) disciplines the statistical agency joins together as ethnic, gender, and cultural studies.........

These 'disciplines' are those with radical activism potential. They should not fade, they should be crushed.

74 posted on 08/26/2018 10:03:12 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: nickedknack
Liberal arts degrees used to mean such as English or History. Now it has come to mean an explosion of useless majors that contain the words Studies, Women, or Black.

Better put on your flameproof suit.
That is not only ignorant, but sexist, homophobic and racist...

< /sarc >

75 posted on 08/26/2018 10:03:52 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: IronJack; bigbob

Or defecating on someone’s grave. That’s about the right for what an animal can do.


76 posted on 08/26/2018 10:08:33 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: sauropod

Bkmk


77 posted on 08/26/2018 10:32:33 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. Even tho physically free, Tommy's not free yet. He's still facing charges.)
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To: sodpoodle
A Lexus mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the engine of a car when he spotted a well-known cardiologist in his shop. The cardiologist was there waiting for the service manager to come and take a look at his car when the mechanic shouted across the garage, "Hey Doc, want to take a look at this?" ...

Now that is among my five most favorite jokes I have heard in my long life.
I wish I had kept track over the years; what the others are, I will recognize when I hear them again.

78 posted on 08/26/2018 10:56:27 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: SeekAndFind

Alas, not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to afford to “enhance intellectual life” with extraneous and abstract studies. Most folks have to get a job and work.

We are not yet at Millennium.


79 posted on 08/26/2018 11:00:56 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Drango

Studying women these days might get ya fired.


80 posted on 08/26/2018 11:02:28 AM PDT by Leep
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