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Re:The End of the English Major by vitaflo on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:35AM (#34971301)
My college roommate was an English major. Now he is a professor of English at a university and is quite happy with it.

Of course the joke always was that he was majoring in English to teach future majors in English.

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Re:The End of the English Major by cpr on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @12:45PM (#34972350)
That's the dirty secret of the whole education-leading-to-PhD system -- it's only real and useful purpose is to create more educators.
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