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Learning to code will eventually be as useful as learning Ancient Greek
- vixen99 9y agoAs useful as Ancient Greek? Comment from Cambridge University: "What careers do those with a Classics degree go on to? Few degrees offer the same opportunities for acquiring advanced skills in languages, analytical thinking, essay-writing, visual analysis, critical sensitivity, spotting a biased source at a hundred paces, and so on. No wonder that Cambridge classicists are amongst the most employable graduates in the country. Our students have gone on to law, journalism, film and television, banking, consultancy, marketing, museum and gallery work, teaching and academia. In the Guardian’s last two University Guide to Classics, Cambridge came top in the country for ‘Career Prospects’.
- dragonwriter 9y agoClassics at prestigious universities—and especially, I would think, at Cambridge—is a major that tends to attract people that, for class and other reasons, have strong employment prospects independent of educational choices. So, sure, its unsurprising that it correlates with good employability, but I'm somewhat suspicious of claims that it produces that employability.