Do you remember those buttons that read, “If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance?”  I haven’t seen many of them around in a while and I humbly submit my opinion as to why.  I happen to be a prime example of a phenomenon I like to call the Decline and Fall of Liberal Arts Education.

See, I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Biblical Studies, a certificate in Religious Studies, an MS in Criminal Justice, and an MA in Theology.  “Wow”, say some people as I apply for yet another job at a coffee shop, “I’d have thought you could get all kinds of cool jobs with all that”.  Yah, me too, obviously, or I wouldn’t have done it all.  But in reality there are all these people around my age with degrees in history, english, art etc., that barely scrape by as waiters, let alone make enough to pay off their massive student loans.  The world belongs to those who study for an actual vocation, not who study for the sake of studying.

So, is this a rant?  Oh yes!  But this does raise interesting questions about the future of knowledge.  In the future, will history and english be simply one or two classes offered to information technology students?  Oh the horror!