<p>Anyone else see the irony in Post #120, or is it just me?
(Meaning, people who protest about how supposedly under-educated Ivy grads are, are themselves quite uneducated about the literacy of others. "English majors" -- there ya' go: another stereotype, another put down, another broad brush, another group slam. Notice it's in quotes, too. Perhaps they're fraudently English majors?)</p>
<p>The one thing I can say definitively about every Eng. major I know who graduated at least 10 years ago, is that I would never know they had been Eng. majors. They almost never talk about literature, unless asked. And the one activity that generally "Eng. majors" do the most of? Read. (Wow: who knew?) They read voraciously, & generally about every topic they can get their hands on: yes, including & sometimes especially, science. And because they read so much, they often have much more than "a basic understanding of science." Genetics, infectious & non-infectious diseases, archaeology, astronomy, psychiatry, & much more.</p>
<p>Someone on this thread either has a LOT of prejudices, or doesn't get out much.</p>