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# Sunday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/33751/
- Published: 2014-08-24T06:29:11.000Z
- Updated: 2014-08-24T06:29:11.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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[Chestertonian Kevin O'Brien, writing at the *Cleveland Plain Dealer*, attacks higher education](http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2014/08/questions%5Fasked%5Fand%5Funasked%5Fab.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com#incart%5Fopinion). Excerpt:

> Too many students are majoring in English, anthropology, sociology and, yes, political science. The job markets specific to those majors cannot possibly absorb them all.

> By no means is the knowledge wasted. It's just spectacularly overpriced. A firm grasp of Dickens and Melville never hurt a Walmart manager. But he could have become a Walmart manager without spending tens of thousands of dollars to learn about Dickens and Melville. . . .

> The college-as-a-necessity culture is causing us to waste a lot of money and misdirect a lot of talent. It doesn't take a Ph.D. to figure out we could do better.