"Arts and Social Studies degrees are an absolute sham."
We are "broke" because those most able to make the greatest contribution to society use their wealth and positions to pay the least - our most influential politicians invariably come from that privileged group and have manipulated our society to serve their own interests rather than the needs of the people as a whole.
The greatest progress in education in my lifetime was when it began to move away from being a conveyor belt producing factory-fodder to a service providing an all-round knowledge which could make of fully sentient human beings
This reactionary garbage is a backwards step into the dark ages, designed to turn us into the automatons we were one regarded as by our "betters".
I am delighted to see that at last it is being challenged by someone who cares and who is being supported by young people who respect that compassion and understanding.
Talk about elite-driven cultural vandalism - you really couldn't make it up!!
This is real-life caricature stuff as spouted by the brandy-swilling colonels sitting in the armchairs of their Gentleman's Clubs pontificating about "these people who don't know their place in society" - the stuff Ealing Comedies were made of.
Jim Carroll