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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher (not in the DC timezone, before anyone wonders why I am posting now).

Last year I had one senior intending to major in English Literature, and another in French Literature.  Both came from families so wealthy they would never need to depend on a career for money.

The state of liberal arts in academia today reminds me of the way study of things like music, art, and classical languages was treated as purely the realm of the aristocracy in Regency and Victorian novels.

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+1 yep.  That's because colleges are too friggin expensive to treat it like a navel gazing activity. Sorry.   Wealthy people also seem to like majoring in Art History, another useless degree to get a good paying job.  And before someone says, "my DC majored in Art History and now makes six figures", please, that is in outlier and not the norm, and more than likely, you used some connections to get those higher paying jobs.

FWIW, I loved learning about Greek mythology and philosophy, but I grew up poor, and being poor sucks more than my love of Greek mythology. I had to get a job after my undergrad degree.  I've been making six figures for 25 years.[/quote]

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