Here come the posters talking about how useless English majors are.
Just to say...I had an older family member, lived in New York, lived successfully through the century.
She, at 85, was very active socially. Attended parties at her niece’s home...CEOs, successful women, New York money.
She told me there was something way wrong, that ‘none of these men can have a conversation, they are from Dartmouth, etc, and all they know is their business, and it didn’t used to be that way’
It’s just a snippet, but it’s interesting, in that it is true across the board.
The most interesting educated people I know are the Military Academy grads. They learn the classics, they did up to the eighties, anyway