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

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
Wow. 1. I am sure they grealty outnumber the graduates from the MBA programs. Or the econ PhD's.

This is one of the dumbest arguments I have ever heard on Poly, and I've read lots of posts by Fez, Wiglaf, Agathon, and CivNation.

[Kuciwalker]

Guess what econ PhD's study, GePap.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher
Here's something for GePap to edumacate himself with: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047...books&v=glance

So, does he make more than Oprah?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by GePap
So, does he make more than Oprah?

Liberal arts undergrad = you'll manage to make as much as the host of a huge TV show?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Guess what econ PhD's study, GePap.

Hmmm? NOT physics?

Hey, right in one try.

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
So, does he make more than Oprah?

WTF?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by GePap
Hmmm? NOT physics?

Hey, right in one try.

Guess what physics, is, GePap.

Hint: the answer is math.

Now, again: guess what econ PhD's study?

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
Hmmm? NOT physics?

Hey, right in one try.

You don't seem to understand what high-level physicists do. It's not that different from complex economic analysis in that it's high-level applied math.

Read the book I linked to, or at least the back of it.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Liberal arts undergrad = you'll manage to make as much as the host of a huge TV show?

Here is the simplified version for the self- satisfied eggheads:

Eggheads (to use a term of endearment) are valued because they with their brainy little ways create new tools, methods, new things that create new potentials, new activites, new ways to harness power. For that, they are valued and handsomely rewarded.

BUT the eggheads do NOT wield the power. They don't control it. They don;t decide how it is used.

To put is simply: Eggheads might makes nukes, but they are not the ones who decide who gets nuked.

In the end, it is the ones who make the decisions, the ones who wield the power who have the most control and decide the shape of the world.

And they are not the eggheads.

[CrONoS]

@Ash, Pekk, and Cie
So the point of this thread is to finance humanities and art:

So do you think we must cut the financial aid to Anthropology, Sociology, Economic, Political Science, Litterature, Art Visual, Law?

My response is: No! In Canada I'm pretty sure it's underfinanced!

So what's your clear answer to this, I just want to know.

[Asher]

It's hilarious to me as so many Liberal Arts graduates seem to think they're the only people who can make big decision.

Here's an idea: they're called civil servants for a reason. You are here to serve the people.

Politicians are scum, and most scientists are above that. That's why you get to decide "who gets nuked", and that's why the world is so ****ed up. Look at Bush.

[Asher]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
@Ash, Pekk, and Cie
So the point of this thread is to finance humanities and art:

So do you think we must cut the financial aid to Anthropology, Sociology, Economic, Political Science, Litterature, Art Visual, Law?

My response is: No! In Canada I'm pretty sure it's underfinanced!

So what's your clear answer to this, I just want to know.

It's not underfinanced, there's too many people entering those fields. For every 10 Anthropology and Sociology graduates, there's 1 position...

[CrONoS]

@Asher
Right!
The cost to enter university is too low, with an higher fee. People will think two times before entering art/humanities bacc.

[Asher]

The requirements are too low. You only need a 70-something percent HS average to enter stuff like Sociology and Anthropology.

[Drake Tungsten]

In the end, it is the ones who make the decisions, the ones who wield the power who have the most control and decide the shape of the world.

True enough, but then again there are only a handful of these people who wield real power. On average, you're a lot better off becoming an egghead with a good chance of a high-paying job than you are a poli-sci major who has a one-in-a-million chance at being a leader and a much more likely future as a low-paid civil service peon...