The world needs people who can actually do something , not another fictician.
Besides the sciences are cool, even you don’t ever use it.
I studied/attended archaeological architecture at collage one winter as a fill in during the long afternoon break. Have never used it except for personal interest.
We are all very interested in archaeology, which is why we’re listening to recordings about pre-Columbian South America. I told my bilingual Sacrament class about some of it last night: the monumental architecture and the Fanged Deity and stuff. One of the students is from Peru, so he perked up a little.
It came up because we were talking about the gods of the cultures around ancient Israel. One boy was worried that learning Greek mythology could be a bad thing - he goes to the Greek charter school started by a Greek restauranteur in the area - but we cleared that up. “As long as you’re not sacrificing a bull to Zeus ...”