1.1. Employers place high value on critical thinking skills associated with humanities majors, and people with these majors tend to excel identifying values and handling conflicts and philosophical issues.
1.2. Humanity teach us to question the origin of the knowledge and the best situation to use them.
1.3. Humanities give students not only a well-rounded education, but the ability to be skeptics.
1.4. We as human being need to learn more about humanity to understand ourselves.
1.5. Humanity encourage students to reflect on what they have learned and how to best use the knowledge they acquired.
1.6. Study humanity encourages critical thinking and original ideas.
2. College Need Liberal Arts
2.1. Adult are more likely to show leadership.
2.2. Study suggested that liberal arts major are more likely to give back and help society.
2.3. Studying in liberal arts teach the students the correct way to learn.
2.4. Liberal arts degree enable the students to investigate all aspects of life.
2.5. A liberal arts education creates a more productive, efficient and active community of scholars. A liberal arts education encourages graduates and enables them to act in society and see the world from many different perspectives.
2.6. Liberal arts majors are the most adaptable when it comes to career and job changes due to the critical thinking, teamwork skills they develops as well as cultural sensitivity and ability to see different political perspectives
3. Economic Sustainability
3.1. Most parents expect their children to study science related field to have better income in the future.
3.2. STEM majors make more money than liberal arts majors. Liberal arts majors top earners earn as much as the bottom earners of STEM majors.
3.3. Liberal Arts degree are too general for many employers.
3.4. Many employers perceive liberal arts and humanity degree as worthless.
3.5. Out of the 10 worst college majors ranked by Forbes based on salaries and unemployment rates, 9 of the majors fell into the liberal arts category.
4. The Decline of Liberal Arts
4.1. Humanities majors don’t take their majors seriously. Students should consider the impracticality of their majors and possibly take these passions and turn them into hobbies instead unless they are willing to seriously commit.
4.2. English Major deserved to be laugh at by friends, family and everybody. And enjoy the unemployment. It is a degree that offers nothing in return. Best way to waste all that tuition.
4.3. liberal arts and humanity students only study abstract, unrealistic ideas.
4.4. English majors may allow you more freedom in college to have a social life, but it is very difficult to obtain a job after graduation with such a broad degree.
