<p>The graduate with the science degree asks, "Why does it work?"</p>
<p>The graduate with the engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"</p>
<p>The graduate with the accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"</p>
<p>The graduate with the liberal arts degree asks, "Would you like fries with that?"</p>
<p>Yea, because it's not like many of the people who run our country have liberal arts degrees. What did Bush major in? Oh yea, history. What do most politicians major in? Oh yea, a liberal arts subject.</p>
<p>then you gotta ask whether or not politicians are the sharpest tools in the shed...</p>
<p>Bush should be working at McDonald's, he'd be much more productive for our country there.</p>
<p>The thing it boils down to is that it's more difficult to succeed with a liberal arts degree, but easier to graduate with one. While the quantitative classes are more difficult to learn, but it's much easier to get a decent job with a degree in engineering/science.</p>
<p>Thus, you'll find more stupid people in liberal arts majors, but at the same time, the most intelligent and successful liberal arts people will easily rival, if not surpass the best of the science/engineering people.</p>
<p>by what standard will they surpass the best of the science/engineering people? if you're talking monetary terms...well, that's easy. making money is more about who you know not what you know. in terms of intelligence? well, that's hard to quantify. i think they just have a different set of standards altogether.</p>
<p>don't feed the troll...</p>
<p>who's the troll? i'm just new here -.-</p>
<p>The thing about liberals arts degrees is that alone they aren't of much value. It is the education that you do after the liberal arts degree -- law school, business school, grad school, teacher's college, etc -- that will get you a good job. Unlike many degrees in the sciences, lib-arts degrees aren't designed to make students professionals in their fields upon graduation, but simply well-prepared to further their education in something more specific.</p>