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To: Sooth2222
"OK -- but how many of those Starbucks Baristas have degrees in Chemical Engineering, and how many have degrees in Art History?"

Roger that. At least half of the offerings on any major campus are non-academic pseudo-disiplines with no utililty in the real world. The are manufactured solely to sell diplomas. This will continue as long as the government is willing to pay for this type of edu-vacation.

4 posted on 01/29/2013 6:27:56 AM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Veblen figured this out 100 years ago when he wrote that the whole point of a degree in Art History was to signal that you were so rich you never needed to know anything “useful”. No one was ever supposed to get these things expecting to earn a living with them! (bummer for the baristas)


5 posted on 01/29/2013 6:42:26 AM PST by babble-on
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