> If so, as a society do we not see value in the fine arts? There's lots of value there - art for art's sake and all that - but these degrees (and many others

> If so, as a society do we not see value in the fine arts? There's lots of value there - art for art's sake and all that - but these degrees (and many others) don't directly translate to employment. The problem is that many people are expecting college degrees to give them lucrative employment when this isn't what college was necessarily designed for in the first place.