<p>Avoidingwork, I agree that technical studies are more quantitative and the humanities and arts are judged by opinion/criticism, but why does that necessarily mean that the humanities/arts have to be graded higher than technical studies for less work? What exactly does the fact that something is judged by opinion have to do with higher grading schemes and less work? I fail to see the connection. </p>
<p>And furthermore, you point out that there are plenty of successful engineers but not many successful artists. And to that, I say, 'So what?'. What does that have to do with the questions at hand? The questions at hand are why are humanities courses graded, on average, easier than technical courses, and why do they assign less work on average? So just because there happen to be lots of successful engineers in the world, that means that engineering should be graded hard? Again, I fail to see the connection.</p>