I’m skeptical a humanities education doesn’t show up in earnings.
The question is more about whether a humanities degree does. It may be that the humanities “genius” is not something you catch in a bottle successfully. After all, the most successful authors don’t usually come out of a special Author College. An employer might appreciate theoretically the talent without thinking it significantly correlates with any one degree. And on the other hand, someone like Steve Jobs certainly did have quite a bit of this knack—design and branding require artistic sensibility—yet he’s mainly seen as a STEM figure.
If its boredom, better to subsidize the YouTubers, podcasters, and TikTokers than the colleges
The problem with this is that there absolutely are plenty of humanities studies that require time, impartiality and rigour, and that sort of format has all the wrong incentives for it. I think in many ways the subdivision is sort of artificial. History or philology for example are, much like natural sciences, digging towards one truth that theoretically exists, but is inaccessible save for indirect evidence. They’re not creative, artistic or particularly subjective pursuits. “Human sciences” would be a more appropriate name for them.
The question is more about whether a humanities degree does. It may be that the humanities “genius” is not something you catch in a bottle successfully. After all, the most successful authors don’t usually come out of a special Author College. An employer might appreciate theoretically the talent without thinking it significantly correlates with any one degree. And on the other hand, someone like Steve Jobs certainly did have quite a bit of this knack—design and branding require artistic sensibility—yet he’s mainly seen as a STEM figure.
The problem with this is that there absolutely are plenty of humanities studies that require time, impartiality and rigour, and that sort of format has all the wrong incentives for it. I think in many ways the subdivision is sort of artificial. History or philology for example are, much like natural sciences, digging towards one truth that theoretically exists, but is inaccessible save for indirect evidence. They’re not creative, artistic or particularly subjective pursuits. “Human sciences” would be a more appropriate name for them.