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Tim Wohlford said...

Liberal arts grad here.

There are two things you gotta get during your college years -- an education, and marketable job skills. Colleges and universities love to give you the education, but lie to students by claiming that their education somehow translates into highly-paid job skills. I mean, who wants to hire someone for their knowledge of dead Greek poets or dead German philosophers?

The sad part is that many grads believe they're getting the job skills in specialized degrees, ie, journalism, archeology, "management", etc. The reality is that many of these fields have fewer total jobs slots than the pool of graduates in any given year.

May 31, 2010, 5:41:43 AM

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