Quote Originally Posted by Greenbeanz View Post
Miles you are absolutely impossible to reason with. If you think anthropology and sociology are meaningless drivel, then what is the point of talking to you ? You would not have linguistics and your idol Chomsky without Anthropology and yet what's good for the Goose is apparently no good for the Gander. I get it you think England. it's students, education and general population are stupid and it is only you who has ever achieved anything despite being born here and then running off to Korea to look down your nose at everybody back home. God you are an insufferable snob.
They are useless if the person is never going to get a job using those skills. I've seen it so often, in courses like these people end up doing things like working in retail or various things not connected to sociology. My friend Marc for instance studied sociology up until MA level and ended up working for the council. Years of being bored later, he is going to study economics. I hope he has a plan, second time out they usually do. I did. Now nursing students on the other hand, always end up getting a job as a nurse.

I am saying that people often choose things simply because they enjoy the subject, but they have no connection to say being a politician. I studied Politics, but unless you are in the old Eton gang you won't have a chance, and furthermore, if you are that bit radical, you will be weeded out regardless. I liked politics and history, but it was useless. Most realise it too late after being told in sixth form 'You must go to University to do well!. Then a decade later and average debts of 10's of thousands of pounds.......the system is not only increasingly useless, but it is abusive and rotten.