You beat me to my comment. Most of them will be fluff majors and it’ll be even worse than lawyers, accountants, etc. It’ll be psych, history, and african american studies majors.
I wonder if there is a single recorded instance anywhere of anyone using anything they learned in african american, gender, women’s, etc. studies to improve our international competitiveness.
America’s education system and the choices that students are making is a snapshot of what is wrong with the country in general. Instead of creating a good business environment where creators and engineers and provide good jobs for the workforce, it is government and unnecessary paper-pushing where the remaining growth is.
So we’re educating a larger proportion of paper-pushers and artistes ... call me unimpressed.
Sometimes I think we need a lot more history majors! If Americans knew more about history they might not be so quick to fall for the leftist line. They would be aware that all these “new ideas” are very old ideas that have been proven wrong time and time again.
Actually I just learned that someone I know casually who is a successful local businessman is...a history major.
Seriously, we need to have history taught in the first twelve years as it used to be. I have yet to meet a recent university graduate, history major or otherwise who knows all the history I learned in public schools. I only remember part of it myself but that is sufficient to surpass the knowledge of history of almost anyone I know who is under forty years of age.
Then there is the matter of knowing how the government is SUPPOSED to work. While still in high school my generation had to learn to write a description of how a bill originated and how it traveled through the house and senate, the process of presidential approval or veto, how a veto could be overridden, and much, much more. We probably knew more about the functioning of congress than most newly elected congressman do now. Most young people now seem to know just about zero concerning that subject.
We also studied the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution from beginning to end. We went over each amendment and discussed what it was intended to accomplish and how it had worked out in practice.
There are some now who say that history is a waste of time, I say look at the condition of this country and realize that the major, some might say the sole cause of this mess is a failure to learn from history.
It is good to have engineers, scientists, physicians but even they need to know the history of the world if they are to be responsible citizens.