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Originally Posted by donquixote99
That's all true only if you conceive of worth as economic worth, exclusively.
That's not to say I'm not all for education that is well-designed for vocational applicability, and for much better guidance and counseling along these lines. Vocational counseling of students is, for the most part, a very bad joke.
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Seriously, I don't mean to rag on liberal arts education. All education is good.
OTOH, I have several friends' (very smart) kids who went to expensive private schools majoring in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Business, etc., do very well, and then, on a whim, change their majors to Psychology or History in their junior years and then complain when the only jobs they can find upon graduation are waitressing and bartending (after having spent $250K on a degree). Worse yet, they move back into their parents' erstwhile empty nests.
