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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Boom. +1[/quote]

Oh please.  I took art history one summer at Montgomery Community College  :lol:  None of my rich pals took it at our expensive university.  This is really hilarious.  Nobody gives a F if you took a course in art history  :lol: [/quote]

First of all, I said classes LIKE art history. You're concrete thinking is concerning. Your rich pals already had the cultual capital and all expensive private universities make students take core or liberal arts courses beyond your major. My point is that classes in the Core confer cultural capital. In the upper circles that type of knowledge is important to success. Because you don't seem to understand this I can only assume you may have a high salary and but your SES (mentality, norms, etc) is still working or middle class. Nothing wrong with that but different circles.[/quote]

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