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November 3, 2011

Degrees

The graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with a liberal arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?" -- Jane Haddam

Posted by Vanderleun at November 3, 2011 12:05 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Yeah, I got my liberal arts degree (Eng Lit) and worked two years as a landscaper. After 25 years in the USAF, I am now employed as an engineer.

Posted by: stephen b at November 3, 2011 2:03 PM

First, really, really old joke.

Second, I took a B.A. in philosophy and have never been without employment except for about three weeks between careers.

Of course, my first career was blowing things up, for which I admit any degree at all would have been fine.

Posted by: Donald Sensing at November 3, 2011 4:35 PM

"Intellectuals love Marx because they have to love Marx. They hate "Americanization" because that's the name they have given to a social order in which they will become irrelevant. The good news is that there's nothing they can do to stop it. The bad news is that they can cause a lot of harm along the way."

Written eight years ago. An astute critique of the left and why they are becoming so desperate. Of course, Obama is part of their harm, but he is, IMO, hastening the irrelevancy.

Posted by: Jimmy J. at November 3, 2011 10:10 PM

But the graduate with an actual liberal arts education (degree or no degree) asks "When else has it worked? What happened then? What can we learn from that? How are things different now? What else works? What are the relative costs of the various options and how does that variable interact with the scientific or engineering aspects to create a useful opportunity?"

Or so those of us with a liberal arts education would like to believe...

Posted by: Sarah Rolph at November 6, 2011 4:44 AM

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