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<p>so what'cha gonna do about it? =P
im terribly sorry if our personal interests are not aligned with that which are most beneficial to the human race, but that's just the way things are.</p>
<p>And if everyone getting a business degree went into history, we probably would have fewer Enron's because people would realize you can't screw around like that.</p>
<p>What kind of example is that? If you're that high in business then you know the history of big business scandals, you don't need a history degree for that. Besides, the Enron people must have known, some people are greedy enough to take risks.</p>
<p>Besides, I didn't mention business in my post.</p>
<p>My point was simply that saying that people educated in every sector are necesary to the functioning of society. You're right, you didn't mention business, but I'm simply extending what you said. Business is one of the most popular fields of study- surely if people would be more productive as Scientists than Historians, the same would hold true for MBA's?</p>
<p>History is my favorite class. Trust me, no class in high school is "useful." Everything you learn is equally "pointless." And a college major in pure science, pure math, or any other liberal arts field is "useless" according to the standards of the closed-minded. Does that mean these are bad majors? Uh, no. Just because there isn't a set-in-stone career path ahead of you doesn't mean there isn't SOME sort of successful career for you. You just have to work hard and get one.</p>
<p>All classes in high school aren't useless. Do you, or does anybody you know, use any medication? If we didn't have Chemsitry, Math, or Biology they wouldn't have that and their life might be very different or non-existent right now.</p>
<p>By the way, I agree with you arbiter213, Business is another too popular major. Progress lies in the sciences.</p>
<p>Chris, you misunderstood me. My point is, high school classes are pointless. The fields of Chem, bio, and history are all extremely useful...but you don't invent medication or learn advanced material in high school. All I'm saying is, study at the high school level is very limited and introductory, so don't make snap judgements about fields based on high school experience. All high school study is bound to be terribly basic.
Without English or history, we wouldn't have news, analysis, diplomacy, academic study of the world--we wouldn't have any real progress in terms of our behavior or our treatment of other nations and we would have no calculus for our decisionmaking. That, I believe, has an equally great, if not greater, impact than the progress of the sciences.</p>
<p>Well you have to start somewhere, don't you? My school offers Calculus (I don't know about yours) and a lot of colleges offer elementary math. Are you telling me Elementary Math in college is better and more useful than Calculus in high school? In reply to this you're probably going to say "well they have Elementary Math for people who didn't take it in high school," but that only proves that high school courses are important. </p>
<p>About making "snap" judgments, I think after four years of high school history I can get what history is about. Even if college goes deeper into history, it doesn't mean it's different. </p>
<p>I still hold that sciences are more useful than History or English. Not that those things aren't useful. But think about it. Society would have existed whether people recorded what happened in the past or not. People don't need History to tell them everything, we have instincts and common sense.</p>
<p>Your post is self contradictory. I hold that organized society as you know it would not exist without history. Politics is applied hisotry, like engineering is applied science.</p>
<p>Politics is not applied History. Actually, the full name for the course is political science. Now whose post is contradictory?</p>
<p>Anyway, how can "society not exist without history"???????? Humans had to start somewhere, are you telling me they all dropped dead because they realized they couldn't talk and therefore couldn't share history? I'm sure people would be fine if they had to make decisions on their own, without looking back at what happened in History. Looknig at it logically, if what you're saying is to be seen as true (that history helps us learn from past experiences), History would have to start out with mistake after mistake after mistake and then continue to get better and better. I haven't seen that in history class.</p>