Boru: Liberal Arts caste, useless or not? Delight stop with the ignorant assumptions

I am tired of hearing, "What are y'all gonna practise with that?", "Are you gonna teach?"

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Published September 23, 2021

I am offended, even though I hate using this give-and-take. I am a kickoff-generation academy student and I am thankful to my parents for making it possible for me to go to university and be able to graduate, as they did non have the opportunity and the means to do so themselves. If you are from a brown, Black or Asian background, the questions of "What is your degree?" and "What are you going to do with it?" are very familiar, if not completely ingrained in our minds, so much so that we blench from merely hearing information technology. Information technology used to be our parents, at to the lowest degree from my experience, who pressured usa on what "should have been or should be" our undergraduate major. Nosotros had to choose from nursing, medical school, dentistry, engineering, computer science or some other "respectable" major. At present, our colleagues and acquaintances take decided to take on the role of judge, jury and prosecutor when it comes to what path we determine to pursue.

I am a student in the Higher of Liberal Arts, specifically an English major. Now, you can probably get why I am salty most those questions. I might come off as existence unnecessarily defensive confronting baseless criticism, only I am merely attempting to school those with tunnel vision who seem to be on a quest to chase where the money is, even if they don't like their jobs. There is nothing wrong with going after what brings you happiness, even if that is a lucrative career, but call up once again before trying to demean the difficult work liberal arts major students put into our studies.

The mutual denominator I have seen from these commenters is that all they know well-nigh liberal arts majors is English, journalism and psychology. They don't stop to think that the people they are putting down can proceed to become authors and philosophers whose books are studied for decades, similar the great philosopher John Locke. Journalists who continue united states upwards to date on what is happening around the earth with their articulate minds and pursuit of justice. Psychologists who study the homo psyche to better understand how nosotros part. People besides don't terminate to retrieve that economists and mathematicians are likewise liberal arts majors. Economists who aid us sympathize how the fiscal world around us works and great mathematicians like Al-Khawarizmi, the father of Algebra, who left us with a legacy we utilise to this twenty-four hour period.

Liberal arts majors make this globe a better place when it comes to understanding humans and catering to our needs and the next generation's needs. Liberal arts are a legacy we inherit from keen minds through history, literature and poesy. History teaches us nigh our roots and identity. So call back again before you demean a liberal arts degree. We are educators, historians, politicians, psychologists, writers, speakers, lawyers and more.

To be fair, fifty-fifty those of us in liberal arts sometimes tin't help but think, "What am I going to practise after I graduate?" and to that I say: life is a marathon, not a sprint. Coin brings food to the table and shelters united states, just it certainly does not buy happiness. Go at your own stride, and learn about life and your values as you effigy out what you tin contribute to this world.

Every bit students of the liberal arts, we are equipped with all the essential tools necessary to do anything nosotros desire and start whatever type of career. Heck, we can even start our ain business and hire people who work for united states instead of becoming employees of a company. We are taught how to recall and articulate our thoughts eloquently without mincing our words. This is proof that our minds and our tongues are the weapons we need and sufficient to take on any task, big or pocket-size.

Life is not a race, and then walk at your ain pace. And you who speak useless words, worry virtually your own life, because we have it figured out.