Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life
At university, when I told people I was studying for a history degree, the response was almost always the same: “You want to be a teacher?”. No, a journalist. “Oh. But you’re not majoring in communications?” In the days when a university education was the purview of a privileged few, perhaps there wasn’t the assumption […]
Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life
At university, when I told people I was studying for a history degree, the response was almost always the same: “You want to be a teacher?”. No, a journalist. “Oh. But you’re not majoring in communications?” In the days when a university education was the purview of a privileged few, perhaps there wasn’t the assumption […]