"The progression of the English major is that typically you go from thinking you're a hotshot writer to understanding that you are a bag of presuppositions and

"The progression of the English major is that typically you go from thinking you're a hotshot writer to understanding that you are a bag of presuppositions and ill considered narratives... A well trained English major is the first to point out that their precious interpretation is probably not correct" In other words, humility. You learn it in science and engineering, too. It's hard to get through rigorous training in those fields without grappling with your own limits. You can't fake it. In computer science, the computer lets you know when you've failed. In science, the data tells you when you're wrong, and, failing that, there's peer review. In math, you have proofs. Any endeavor that is empirical and data-driven exposes nonsense efficiently and ruthlessly.