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History isn't a 'useless' major
- notadoc 10y agoA liberal arts education makes someone broadly informed and fairly well rounded, who says that is useless?
- ddebernardy 10y agoThose who don't need (or want) [employees|voters] who can think?
- cronjobber 10y ago> It teaches critical thinking Not my experience. Actual critical thinkers lose half their IQ points as soon as talk turns to history. People who know last week's history as reported by journalists has to be taken with a big pinch of salt, yet cling to whatever narrative of centuries past they've once read in a book, as if they had first hand knowledge.