About college majors. A lot of people blame students for choosing impractical majors

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113. Unless we want a society of composed totally of technocrats and engineers

and accountants, we really do have to support the idea that some of our citizenry should be pushing the envelope in fields in the humanities—contributing to the scholarship in fields like history and symbolic logic and art and literature. And we should acknowledge that there are some people who actually like--no, live and breathe for--subjects like Renaissance literature or art history or anthropology or extinct Athabascan languages. Some people don't give a proverbial rat's ass for getting a high-paying engineering job out of college, and are willing to put in the years to enter a field like academia, where the salaries may not be superb but the life is not half bad. Not everybody wants to be an engineer, but everybody has something to contribute somewhere. And if our society doesn't value the humanities, it probably isn't going to be a very interesting or, dare I say, great society in the end. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. (I remember that from having to read Marx 40 years ago in college.)