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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (258806)8/24/2014 2:22:01 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (2) of 543059
 
I've always disliked the second argument because majoring in philosophy, history, english, and so on shouldn't be about making the most money or running the largest corporation. But rather about learning about the human condition, how to think critically, the long scope of culture, and so on.
John, in the Mammon-worshipping America of today, that just sounds like a bunch of wishy-washy hippie BS.

One of my bosses when I was developing software had read nothing but technical books since he had graduated college a decade earlier. He felt reading anything else was a total waste of time.

I read an article, but didn't post it, about how kids today shouldn't even care about getting a degree, but should just learn to code in an in-demand computer language and get a great paying job. The employers don't care about degrees, they care about very specific abilities.
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