One of the Worst Education Articles I've Read

[Merlin]

‘A liberal-Arts degree is useless!’ (period) Going by this article, many of us in this forum are just wasting our time and energy. This article has probably been penned by a very depressed person, who has hasn’t found a job yet!

It is just a terrible article in general. It is full of disinformation, biased statements, and hyperbole. It just goes to show how you don't need any kind of credentials to post your ideas to a blog or website for the world to read.

That said, that article isn't written for us or the kind of students who frequent this forum. In fact, this article is probably offensive to anyone in academia or who has earned more than one degree.

On this forum, a lot of people end up with liberal studies degrees because they just need to a checkbox degree and the BALS is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to attain that degree. We have a few young folks, but the majority are working adults who are coming back for degrees because they want to make a career change or want to check off a life goal checkbox.

That article is intended to address high school kids and young adults who are preparing for college and looking for a degree to help them build a career. It is giving them a bad impression and terrible advice, but I suspect that is the target audience.

I assume the author is a 20-something who just graduated with a ton of college debt and now has a degree that they feel was a waste of time and money because it doesn't automatically get them into a high-paying job.