I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss liberal arts. We need them to learn about our culture. In English you learn to communicate and construct logical arguments. History is important - if you don't learn it, you'll repeat it. In both of these majors, you learn there's nothing new under the sun, from Greek history to Greek plays, that human hubris and foibles have been with us from the beginning of time. Why do you think Common Core wants to do away with literature and replace it with technical reading? Dumb them down until they don't remember what freedom was and destroy all vestiges of Western culture. Unfortunately the revisionist history being taught now is helping to destroy the culture as well.
Totally in agreement with you here.
Why do you think Common Core wants to do away with literature and replace it with technical reading? Dumb them down until they don't remember what freedom was and destroy all vestiges of Western culture.
Hirsch's book Cultural Literacy (associated with Common Core?) came out in the mid 1980s.
Unfortunately the revisionist history being taught now is helping to destroy the culture as well.
Deconstructionism was already being taught in the English Department when I was a undergrad. :(