“The plan to cut the liberal arts and humanities majors… is in line with a failed attempt by Republican Gov. Scott Walker in 2015 to secretly change the mission of the respected university system… by removing words that commanded the university to ‘search for truth’ and ‘improve the human condition’ and replacing them with ‘meet the state’s workforce needs.”
“As a history major myself, I cannot condemn this enough. If you’re asking yourself ‘why?’, let me offer you a question. Between a worker who is trained to execute exact tasks and a worker who is trained to ask ‘why are we doing this task?’, whom do you think is more desirable to the average capitalist employer? I think this confirms that if you know history, political science, philosophy, geography, a second language, sociology, art, music, or geoscience, you’re a threat to the capitalist status quo.” -Richard D. Wolff
“I think this confirms that if you know history, political science, philosophy, geography, a second language, sociology, art, music, or geoscience, you’re a threat to the capitalist status quo.”