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I think the 'crisis' can be distilled to a simple concept - with rising costs of living not many people want to invest in a degree which has relatively few opti
by yazan94 8y ago
I think the 'crisis' can be distilled to a simple concept - with rising costs of living not many people want to invest in a degree which has relatively few options for comfortable living compared to other options. If the humanities are really so important for our culture, then the public needs to invest in making them practical options for someone to invest in. Otherwise, why bother lamenting about the lack of people studying humanities when there are limited job options in the humanities? Can you really blame them?
- andromeduck 8y agoI think what's changed is that the humanities have become so easy to access that degreess are no longer required for people with just a passing interest and since the degree itself isn't worth as much as the skills it develops; is more effective to get a higher value degrees and persue those interests in other ways.
- AnimalMuppet 8y ago"Liberal education" originally meant the education appropriate for free people, as opposed to education in a trade, which was for slaves. Translating that into the modern day, if you have to work for a living, a liberal education probably isn't going to pay.