Do the humanities need a rebrand?

You don't learn anything about human nature in physics and calculus class.

I've never seen you write anything interesting, funny, or creative. But those are precisely the kind of things that pay off in professional relationships. And it doesn't hurt to be a student of the human condition, including history, music, art, literature, satire, and all the social sciences.
These are people who have no idea how business and government is organized. They think being manager of a restaurant is the peak of power.
 
These are people who have no idea how business and government is organized. They think being manager of a restaurant is the peak of power.
educate us all. right here. right now.

start with broad strokes and work into the details.

or stfu and admit you're a bloviating big fetus.
 
These are people who have no idea how business and government is organized. They think being manager of a restaurant is the peak of power.
Almost all of our presidents and Supreme Court justices were humanities or social science majors as undergraduates.
 
You don't learn anything about human nature in physics and calculus class.
Ok
I've never seen you write anything interesting, funny, or creative.
I've never seen you write anything interesting, funny, or creative.

But those are precisely the kind of things that pay off in professional relationships.
I have no professional relationships with anyone on this board. So what.
And it doesn't hurt to be a student of the human condition, including history, music, art, literature, satire, and all the social sciences.
One doesn’t need a degree in any of those to be a student of them.
Well most people don’t.
Maybe you do.
The Japanese have a term for lifelong learning called Kaizen.
Apparently you’re not familiar with it and stop learning after getting a degree.
Or do you stay in school your entire life getting one degree after another?
 
It's always people who never went to college who set themselves up as the arbiters of which college degrees have any value.
Le yawn. Has anyone ever told you the "I'm better than you" thing is offputting to everyone?
It's a sign of insecurity. We have one like that in our group.
 
Ok

I've never seen you write anything interesting, funny, or creative.


I have no professional relationships with anyone on this board. So what.

One doesn’t need a degree in any of those to be a student of them.
Well most people don’t.
Maybe you do.
The Japanese have a term for lifelong learning called Kaizen.
Apparently you’re not familiar with it and stop learning after getting a degree.
Or do you stay in school your entire life getting one degree after another?
all he has is pomp and circumstance.
 
It's always people who never went to college who set themselves up as the arbiters of which college degrees have any value.
They just resent everyone who is better educated than they are. I'd feel sorry for them if they were not such assholes.
 
They just resent everyone who is better educated than they are. I'd feel sorry for them if they were not such assholes.
The resentment seems to be a one way street. I don't resent HVAC technicians or welders. That's valuable work.
 
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