“I am one who believes that, in a better world, a BA was worth having for its own sake. Not today. I met an MA in English who never studied a play of Shakespeare.”
Yup. I got a BS in zoology, and then later got an MA in English(TESL). Over the last 30 years, I’ve been amazed at the decline in variety and volume of writing that English majors must read. Oprah’s book club seems to be about the most taxing level of understanding that the youngest teachers I met needed to get their degrees, even at the master’s level.
“Hey Hey Ho Ho Western Civ has got to go.”
Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.