A Degree in Basket-Weaving
Guiding Choice of Major is a Serious Parental Responsibility The choice of major is the most important educational choice your child will make. It outweighs choice of school by orders of magnitude. Yet parents I speak to completely ignore this. They spend weeks and thousands of dollars flying their kids around to different schools, but don't spend 10 minutes giving some real-world guidance to their teens about what to study when they get there. Parents need to guide their children into a sensible choice of major. Too many parents abdicate this responsibility. A Note About Politeness to Humanities Graduates There's this thing that we engineers do. We try to be polite to humanities majors. With a little experience, I learned, as most of us did, that the humanities major is impermeable to reason or argument. And that's fine. I address this blog to the parents of those not yet caught in the intellectual trap that is the humanities major. But this requires that I...