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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]An A student from a good college in electrical engineering/ computer science can probably get a job in strategy consulting, banking, and technology. That's a lot of opportunity. An A student in liberal arts has a much more uncertain future. [/quote]

A student from a good college with a "desirable" major should be a well educated person.  I am the poster with the English major for a dad - [b]would love to see how many Anonymous posters had to look up the word "metallurgy" in their (online) dictionary to understand my original post.[/b]  Not many English majors, I'll bet, but most of the STEM folks.  BTW, in the 1940's, to get an English degree, you had to study chemistry, biologoy, physics and math in addition to Shakespeare, to graduate.

I've a dear friend with an Ivy League education and a top five law degree who survived high school, college and of course law school without ever taking a science class.  I love her, but is she "educated?"  I don't know.....

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I'm pretty sure anyone with a science background can figure out that word just by looking at it.  Find me an English major who can provide a scientifically reasonable definition of "metal".[/quote]

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