Have you ever been asked what the Humanities are good for?

[MadDAsHell]

65. I 100% agree with you on the schools; they have responsiblity here too.

For far too long many schools have cared only about bringing in as many students as possible, with no real thought put into jobs for these folks. Both quantity of graduates, and the types of majors they're graduating with, are potential issues in the marketplace.

I'm not talking about any mass movement in terms of students that want to be bailed out, but I know several myself who got degrees in History, Sociology, Philosophy, etc. and basically want forgiveness of those loans now because they're making so little (or never found a job in their field period). It's not that I don't care (they are my friends after all), but they had the same information that I did about those majors in terms of the potential job prospects and earnings. Sort of like smoking. It's been generally known that smoking causes cancer for 50+ years, and many of us avoided it because of that; why do we act like people who started smoking in the last 30-40 years were somehow duped?