(iStock)ReporterA new analysis by two economists takes issue with those who argue that liberal arts education is not worth the investment. Catharine B. Hill and Elizabeth Davidson, of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, looked at how much graduates with a liberal arts education can earn. They found that while liberal arts majors may not earn as much engineers, they do well, showing that critics are incorrect about the worth of the degree. Those who ridicule the liberal arts love to focus on bizarrely titled or narrowly specialized college courses in literary or philosophical study, or doctrinaire-sounding subjects in identity politics. These conservatives would throw out the precious baby of universal liberal education with the bathwater of perceived liberal bias.

Source: Washington Post May 26, 2019 15:29 UTC