No, we need to change the structure of education. There's zero reason to spend 4 years taking general ed courses at the same cost to pursue a history degree as

No, we need to change the structure of education. There's zero reason to spend 4 years taking general ed courses at the same cost to pursue a history degree as you would spent pursuing a science degree. Stop focusing on the lettered degrees which are supposed to prove "overall knowledge" and then a specialty, and let people take courses a la carte when it comes to professional preparation. We need people to be knowledgeable in things like history, the arts, languages, even archaeology - things that pay almost nothing as careers. It's very easy to sit on a high horse with a well paying job in a STEM field and say things like you're saying. Actively discouraging people from pursuing study is not the answer. Changing the program and the institutionalization of education is. We need to stop worrying about how to pay for a program and start worrying about why the program is what it is.