Is "radical" good or bad.

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(06-06-2019, 10:49 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Not yet.  Four years of undergrad, three masters degrees that sound a lot like each other, a PhD in anthropology, and then a professorship teaching all this to other kids who want to go to school until they are 35.  I often think the only jobs for half the majors are teaching it to the next group.  

Don't anyone get all up in arms.  I'm just messing a little.

I agree. A lot of degrees are not worth the money they cost.

Which is a shame because if the debt required to go to college continues to increase, then people will stop getting degrees in History, Liberal Arts, Literature and other low paying degrees and society will suffer for it.


When my Grandfather went to school, getting a degree was more than enough to get virtually any job (he got a degree in history and then became a CIA agent). A college education was more about proving you were teachable than necessarily what you were taught in school. I'm an engineer and, outside the basics of math, science etc, I only really use about...maybe 15% of the knowledge I gained in advanced classes that focused on very specific things like distillation column sizing.

Nowadays, employers are looking for real world experience and bankable degrees, and those two things just do not coincide with liberals arts degrees at all. And liberal arts degrees cost about the same as an engineering degree (minus lab fees and things like that, which are relatively minor) but pay exponentially less once you graduate.