Any attempt to justify time spent in pursuit of an English Lit degree inevitably sounds smug/condescending. You have to say general things like it teaches you h

Any attempt to justify time spent in pursuit of an English Lit degree inevitably sounds smug/condescending. You have to say general things like it teaches you how to write and think and appreciate the breadth of human experience - but then you are implying that everybody else must be lacking in those areas, which sounds terrible.