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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is the only purpose of college to get a high paying career? Not to be a well educated person? You realize that’s the purpose of Columbia’s Core right? [/quote] We are not independently wealthy. The main purpose of college for all but the 1% is to get a stable high paying job after graduation (or get into law school or med school). Frankly, we chose Columbia in spite of the Core — colossal waste of time making my kid take useless classes like Art History or African Lit. [/quote] If you really want to make it (top of your field) you need cultural capital, which classes like art history confer. Class distinctions go beyond income.[/quote] Highly doubt one Intro to Art History class will confer “cultural capital,” but ok. [/quote]
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