To the editor: Nicholas Goldberg asks the place all of the English majors have gone. The reply is straightforward: They’ve gone the place they’ve all the time gone. They’ll in all probability change into lecturers or attorneys.
The query many liberal arts majors could also be asking themselves is that this: Why did I get myself into debt by attending a “extremely ranked” faculty if I’m going to finish up being a instructor? In any case, California State College colleges are the perfect instructor prep schools within the state.
And liberal arts majors who determine to change into attorneys could also be asking themselves an identical query: Wouldn't it have been higher to attend a state college as an alternative of going into debt at a “extremely ranked” faculty and really have some cash to attend legislation college?
Getting right into a “extremely ranked” undergraduate college is sweet for bragging rights, however a very good instructor continues to be a very good instructor, and a very good lawyer continues to be a very good lawyer, it doesn't matter what schools they attended.
So to reply Goldberg’s query, the English majors are doing simply advantageous.
Mark Walker, Yorba Linda
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To the editor: Goldberg writes effectively and properly in regards to the decline in faculty humanities majors. Science and expertise make our lives simpler. The liberal arts make our lives higher and richer.
No authorities or enterprise actually desires individuals who suppose critically, regardless of the claims on the contrary. We solid apart at our peril these lessons and programs that don’t lead on to jobs.
The excessive price of schooling, one thing earlier generations didn't have to fret about a lot, is ensuing within the grim societal penalties we see throughout us.
Fred Glienna, Pasadena
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To the editor: Faculties have more and more relied on adjuncts to show programs in humanities. Half-time professors are employed by the semester and paid a lot lower than what a full-timer makes.
We additionally haven't any job safety. Within the recession that began in 2008, I went from making about $65,000 a 12 months to $18,000 in a single fell swoop. In the meantime, inept directors pull in six-figure salaries and are practically inconceivable to dismiss.
When a brilliant pupil asks me how she or he can comply with in my footsteps, I say: “Don’t. You may’t make a dwelling within the humanities.”
Ralph Tropf, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I’ve all the time puzzled why anybody would spend actual cash on a liberal arts diploma, and it appears the sunshine bulb is beginning to go on for teenagers and households. It’s telling them, “This isn't a sensible approach to spend money on your future.”
Goldberg quotes somebody as saying, “It’s not like humanities majors are ending up as baristas.” Uh, sure, they're. Faculty is meant to arrange you on your future. It solely works when you've got an thought of what that future goes to appear to be and the way your main will get you there.
Faculties don’t educate you the right way to suppose anymore; they educate you what to suppose. People are catching on.
Tom Schmiedeberg, Solana Seashore
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