> I don’t think most people going to 3rd-tier college to study humanities are doing it out of some abstract love of education. Well, the fact that they are thi

> I don’t think most people going to 3rd-tier college to study humanities are doing it out of some abstract love of education. Well, the fact that they are third-tier already tells you that they won’t get some cushy job from the education by itself. Are they necessarily doing it for the love of education? Probably not. But I suspect that that motivation is more likely to be found in them than the students at the top-tier institutions that will be welcomed by the open embrace of six-figure salaries and social status once they graduate.