HERE is an interesting list of ten college majors that are gradually being phased out at colleges and universities. They include philosophy, foreign language study, the classics and humanities programs. The problem isn’t that no one wants to study these things anymore, or at least that’s not the only problem. The truth is, they have become too expensive to study and employers don’t place a premium on these areas except with Ivy League graduates.  Furthermore, with advances in technology, it is possible to learn these subjects at a much lower price from some of the greatest scholars in the world.

Is the traditional liberal arts college doomed? Perhaps not entirely, but it will be a rarer and more exclusive phenomenon. Today, it seems only irreplaceable for one thing and that is, to bring together people of similar interests and intelligence so that they can get married. The liberal arts college is now the most expensive marriage brokerage in the world.

Daniel Mitsui

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