Stop liberal thieves from destroying our lives and livelihoods with useless degrees and student debts.

It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters

Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng

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At the highest level of education we should focus state and nation resources on legitimate accredited schools of law and medicine, the necessary preparatory curriculum for students to enter the study of these subjects, and the necessary discipline to effectively regulate the practices of these most highly educated professions. No other fields of study than these should ever incur student debt.

Other subjects such as history, literature, biology, geology, astronomy, physics and mathematics should not be ignored, but people generally do not need to be subsidized to study subjects which have no formal degree requirements. There is nothing wrong with being a self-supporting amateur in a field of study which is not money-making in and of itself. We're all aware of the necessity of “making it” in some line of work or another, but America needs to be restored to its former greatness as country of self-made men, rather than mafia-made men.

That leaves us with so-called “fine arts” as well as various mundane technical trades. There are instruments, tools, media and materials with which students are expected to develop and demonstrate directly marketable skills. Students graduating with marketable skills face always extremely hostile competition from the Establishment.

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Killing Liberal Arts

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Liberating the Liberal Arts—and Making Higher Education Affordable

Make sure college students’ lives stay on track legally and financially through the process of getting a degree and finding work, and do not saddle them obnoxious legal process over parochial mental health and social concerns.

The few who fail the bar have developed horrible vices and bad habits of wrecking the lives of many who pass it with flying colors.