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Re:They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose by delichon on Friday August 15, 2025 @10:14AM (#44912701)
IMHO Outcome Based Funding is a better model for public education.

https://freopp.org/whitepapers/aligning-state-higher-educati...

As you might imagine this is favorable to STEM and unfavorable to the humanities. But I think that expensive private institutions are a better venue to educate students who are more insulated from economic disadvantage in disciplines with a low return on investment. It's a good thing to bias the opportunities of disadvantaged students in favor of greater earning capacity. In higher education, the lower the expected pay for a skill set, the more it should be treated as a luxury good.

Re:They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose by k8si on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:19PM (#44915740)
"Only rich kids should get to choose what they study in school, poor kids are too dumb to make their own choices"
Re:They're Killing the Humanities on Purpose by zdragnar on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:30PM (#44915902)
The argument is rather that humanities degrees are a luxury item. Neither kids just starting out their adult lives nor society should be burdened propping up departments whose value doesn't match their price tag.