I have to say something, if only because I went to Amanda's college (Bowling Green State U. in Ohio). Maybe the depressing thing is that her article could have appeared in the college paper when I was there (Class of '73) without too many changes. At the time, though, there was a kind of general theory in the Liberal Arts sector that college was not trade school; you were there to get an overall education and specialization would come later. It sounded a little defensive, maybe because Bowling Green really was a trade school in some respects: it had started as a teachers' college and still was a teacher mill. A typical student you might run into in the bars downtown on Friday night was probably a girl named Debbie from Cleveland majoring in Elementary Education, and her more idealistic best friend was majoring in Special Education. The common joke was that Debbie and her friend were also looking for Mrs. degrees, but even that aside, the idea of becoming a grade school teacher was at least something solid in the way of sensible career planning, and more than a lot of us were doing over in Liberal Arts.
Me, I had gone to college without too much in the way of future plans, mainly to see what turned up. Rather incredibly, something did: I signed up for a program offering a year abroad in Austria as a way to get off campus for a year, spent my Junior year in Europe, came back with enough credits for a German major, discovered I could learn other languages, too, and to this day I work mostly as a translator. It sounds fairly organized and planned out in retrospect, but at the time I was blundering blindly and stumbling into things by sheer dumb luck. So I'm not inclined to fault Amanda too much for her evident terror when faced with the future. It's probably only too understandable for this particular time in her life.
Based on personal experience, Education majors ruin perfectly good women. One person I knew in college was a nice Republican girl(looking for her Mrs. too, ended up getting) that as well), she took a few classes and suddenly was full of this angry rhetoric against white males and patriarchal society blah blah blah. She's still not horribly liberal, but more so, and it's a shame. There were others as well.