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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anybody can get a liberal arts degree. It's ridiculously easy. Not everybody can get a STEM degree. The STEM fields are difficult but they come easy for some people and employment after graduation is all but guaranteed.[/quote]
Even if this were correct (and I'm not arguing this with you), what kind of world would it be if everyone had STEM degrees? If every child was forced into it whether they liked it or not? Going to school [i]just because it might lead to a lucrative career[/i] isn't for everyone.

Anecdata: I have a friend whose parents told him they would only pay for a STEM degree (though we didn't call it that way back in the 90s). He wanted to go to college, so he acquiesced, when what he really wanted was a liberal arts degree. He was miserable. He's still miserable now, as an insurance salesman.
Just like on most of these threads, people have been ignoring the pro-liberal arts arguments. We can't all be--nor should we--in STEM careers. [/quote]

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