Like English and Philosophy?
I'm an English major with a minor in Philosophy. I've been a physician for >30 years and I would say that's a reasonable job.
Actually, my major-minor prepared me very well for the work I do. Medical school is for the nuts and bolts stuff.
The issue isn't liberal arts (of course, it goes without saying that any "discipline" invented since 1968 should be eliminated) - the issue is way, way too many "students" going to college.
Liberal arts, properly done, makes smart people better people. Liberal arts are not ABOUT finding you a job.
I thought that’s what trade school was for.
I have a liberal arts degree with a major in foreign language (Spanish). That degree allowed me to support my 4 children when their father decided he couldn’t handle the situation and left. I added a few hours of education courses from Baylor University, and we survived. They, all 4, are tax-paying citizens, and I’m retiring.
I won’t disagree with you about too many people going to college but the unemployment rate differential for college no college is stark.
I have always felt as you do but the world is changing and it’s more difficult to find work without.
I tend to agree. Universities were originally designed to educate the whole person. They weren't necessarily set up to get someone a job. It's certainly nice if your major is likely to get you a good job, but an all around education is still important. People talking strictly about their jobs and little else are pretty boring to be around. My dentist can disport on a wide variety of subjects...and usually does. It makes the dental experience a lot easier to tolerate.
Like nanoscience? LOL
Thank you, Doctor. I am sick of the anti-cultural philistinism of so many on the right - let’s remember that Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor AND an important writer...the liberal arts are a valuable asset to emotional and intellectual development, with countless possible applications.
I’ve got a liberal arts degree myself, with lots of English and philosophy included in it.
The value of said degree, let alone its utility, is debatable.
What I would suggest is that with a little effort you and I could have read what we read and learned what we learned without sitting in a classroom, living in a dorm, and paying through the nose for the (literal) privilege.
I loved college, had a great time and pulled down a 3.86 gpa. But a lot of what I did, and what the curriculum required me to do, really only got in the way of my acquiring knowledge, let alone wisdom.
I had a major in Theater with a minor in Political Science.
All it really qualified me to do was to stage a coup.