I love the idea of a true liberal arts education. At West Point as an engineering student, I was required to also study history, a foreign language, law, economics, and political science. Conversely, my roommates majoring in Arabic or history were required to take physics and engineering.
Yet I also believe that our society overrates college and undervalues trade schools. College is not the right fit for everyone.
But we need to rescue the "softer subjects" from the domination of Marxist professors who teach crap instead of teaching students to think.
Liberal Arts were destroyed by Marxists, without a peep the media. Once noone wants to take Marxist courses, now the media complains.
US enterpreneurs went to Eastern Europe to rescue their economies. They were put in charge of organizations full to the brim with advanced degrees, but unable to create, manufacture, and sell a product. In many cases the answer was to fire the high ranking people with useless degrees, and retain the less educated and more practical people to perform manufacture, marketing, and distribution.
Why would a bronze age greek propaganda story be relevant now? Why would someone major in it? Propaganda has a finite shelflife.
You are so right. There is absolutely nothing wrong with trade schools and college is not for everyone