Is it good policy to give financial aid to liberal arts majors?

[Pekka]

librul art majors: try to come to realization of something that is utopia, then chase after it.

real men: Realize the world around you and the facts of it. Learn how it works. Now, operate it. Make it better.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Pekka

Listen, I've heard some cats say to me that without philosophy, we wouldn't have anything today, we certainly could not pursue science. This statement struck me as something odd, I mean it came from philosophy defendor.

That is technically true , as all other sciences were once part of philosophy , and became separated when they became specialised enough . The credit must go to philosophy as a discipline for nurturing them up to this point .

And I'm a hard sciences student .

[Pekka]

That wasn't the point. I've explained it numerous times now and I will decline going back to this trivial matter.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
Maybe that's why so many are completely oblivious to the idiosyncries of human behaviour.

waaah. I can't take a partial derivative. Waaah.

[RGBVideo]

No point in subsidizing either. Supply and demand should drive students and wages and all that. If you subsidize engineer education, you just create more engineers and drive down wages (of benefit to employers of course).

There is nothing magical about engineering versus softer stuff. Be careful of thinking that we can micromanage the economy. The Soviets worshipped at the alter of heavy industry and forced electrification and such and it was a terrible misallocation of resources.

I think this post had such a good point, it was worth repeating

Invididuals should decide by themselves, for themselves.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by TCO
Poly Sci is where you run when you don't have the ability.

I was pretty good in math and natural sciences in general in high school. Yet I went to poli sci, because I chose to. It's actually interesting

[Pekka]

that's because high school math is like learning to drive a car.. everyone can, but to truly 'know it', you should be able to at least drive a rally car, or F1.

[fed1943]

Please tell me, are there still workers to recieve the advice from philosophers,cultural and social scientists and the orders from natural scientists and engineers?
Best regards,

[Colonâ„¢]

Hitler was a painter. Not to say he wasn't a horrible person, but it shows you do can make it in that field.

[Barnabas]

This problem did not exist in the Soviet Union!

Scientists were royalty there!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
Hitler was a painter. Not to say he wasn't a horrible person, but it shows you do can make it in that field.

Wasn't he a failed painter?

[Pekka]

Kuci, yes and that's why he did what he did. I guess. Well he was insane thinking he could control the whole world. And also the 'dream' about racial purity etc. Pretty much a person who is nuts.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Spiffor

I was pretty good in math and natural sciences in general in high school. Yet I went to poli sci, because I chose to. It's actually interesting

Yes and there are 2 white cornerbacks in the NFL...

[Kassiopeia]

Political science interesting? That's unpossible!

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Wasn't he a failed painter?

All the more reason to acknowledge losers shouldn't be underestimated.