Monday, June 13, 2011

Choices in Majors

At the Wall Street Journal, Harvey Mansfield complains about "meathead" majors.


In this happy season of college graduations, students and parents will probably not be reflecting on the poor choices those students made in selecting their courses and majors. In colleges today, choice is in and requirements are out. Only the military academies, certain Great-Books colleges and MIT (and its like) want to tell students what they must study. Most colleges offer a cornucopia of choices, and most of the choices are bad.


(For the complete piece, do a Google News Search for "Sociology and Other 'Meathead' Majors.")

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