On 4/26/12 1:00 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:28:12 -0400, wrote:

In ,
says...

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:37:05 -0400, wrote:

In ,
says...

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:58:39 -0400, wrote:


Gee, sure are a lot of liberal arts degrees in there, including
Journalism and English Lit!

http://xfinity.comcast.net/slideshow...ollegemajors/?
cid=hero_media


Probably some kind of knuckle dragger's sour grapes. Reread and note
the "experienced" unemployment rate for most of those jobs.

It's a very well researched fact that liberal arts majors don't make the
kind of money that technical and physical science type majors do.

Why does that make them "useless?"

Because you can make as much money with a high school diploma.

So, there is no value in education beyond the pay check! Oh, I get it,
this is iBoaterer, never mind.


I'm not aware of a liberal arts grad in my immediate circle of
colleagues and acquaintances, about 50 men and women, who is making less
than six figures a year, if that is any kind of standard, with the
exception of a few classroom teachers. Most of us deliberately avoiding
getting a "trade school education" in college, and attended for the
value of what a good liberal arts education can help you achieve
mentally. Back in the days before electricity, when I was an undergrad,
I remained in the College of Arts & Sciences rather than take the offer
of a transfer to the School of Journalism, not that I had anything
against the school or journalists. The courses I wanted to take in the
J-school were available to any university undergrad.

Sadly, our society doesn't value with money those who give to society
(teachers, firemen, police officers, nurses, social workers, et cetera)
as much as it values with money those who take from society (bankers,
stock brokers, senior corporate execs, MBAs, many lawyers, et cetera).