Yeah, to be honest, I have to make an exception for hard science. I should probably say "liberal arts" education is a waste of time and money and leave it at that. That covers high school and most college. But you're right, engineering and other hard sciences are necessary disciplines that require high level education. Then again, I'm sure engineers are required to take some real waste-of-time courses to get their degree.
You go to college to get an education, not learn a job skill. These are two different things.
*****Yeah, to be honest, I have to make an exception for hard science. I should probably say "liberal arts" education is a waste of time and money and leave it at that. That covers high school and most college. But you're right, engineering and other hard sciences are necessary disciplines that require high level education. Then again, I'm sure engineers are required to take some real waste-of-time courses to get their degree.*****
Haha, I agree with you now! We always rip on those in the College of Liberal Arts. I particularly love the "Liberal Arts, Undeclared" students. correction: "students"
I met this guy in engineering, we got to talking and I asked what he was studying. He told me "I'm majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in English." I said "so you're in both the College of Engineering and Liberal Arts...does that mean you make fun of yourself?"
Regarding waste-of-time courses, I would say the only real wastes were the government courses. Not that they had an agenda or anything, but you really didnt learn much. Some consider history a waste, but I love history.
Funny story. I took a class my freshman year, called "Environmental Issues in Government." Pretty much a bullsh*t class. Regardless, the professor kept the class pretty middle-of-the-road, but I could tell he was a liberal, simply by the fact that he taught a course with a name like that. Well, one day, I'm walking back from the stadium (GO LONGHORNS!) with a couple buddies of mine, and we see this car broken down in a parking lot. My friend goes and gets his car, we jumpstart the car, and this nasty billowing black smoke comes pouring out of the tailpipe. Something was not right. Then I recognize the driver as the professor I'd had the semester before. I make some quip about how he needs to get the car checked out, and "more concerning" how horrible that is for the environment. He laughed it off with a "yeah yeah, I know, I know", and then I introduced myself and told him that I was in his Environmental class the semester before. He got a little sheepish, and I found it pretty funny.
Jeez, sorry about the long post.
"Then again, I'm sure engineers are required to take some real waste-of-time courses to get their degree."
Like the Freudian(sexual) analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets, a government course taught by an Argentine leftist b**ch who thinks Castro and Mao were the greatest leaders ever, a business course taught by an idiot who thinks taxes were the greatest thing ever invented, and socialist indoctrination class disguised as a writing class. This was a smaple of wht engineering/science students had to endure at UT Austin in the 1970's. God only knows what kind os BS classes are required now!