History Quotes / ADegreeInUseless

->There's actually an ongoing rumor that you can automatically graduate and earn your degree if you become sufficiently fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Imagine all the table you could wait with those skills, huh?

-->-- '''Rory Gilmore''' on [[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague Yale]], ''Series/GilmorGirls'', "[[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS05E10 But Not As Cute As Pushkin]]"

->''"A tous ceux, qui nourris de grec et de latin, sont morts de faim, je dédie ce livre."''[[labelnote:Trans.]]"To those who, fed on Greek and Latin, died of hunger, I dedy this book."[[/labelnote]]

->''"I payed 120.000 dollars so a teacher could tell me to read Creator/JaneAusten, only'' '''''then I didn't!'''''

-->-- '''A homeless aug''', ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanMankindDivided''

-->-- '''A homeless aug''', ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''

-->--Webcomic/{{xkcd}} #1052, "[[http://xkcd.com/1052/ Every Major's Terrible]]"

-->--'''Creator/JohnMulaney'''

-->--Ibid.

-->--'''Magazine/{{MAD}}'''

-->--''Theatre/AvenueQ''

-->--'''[[http://www.salon.com/2014/07/05/ronald_reagan_stuck_it_to_millennials_a_college_debt_history_lesson_no_one_tells/ Peter Lunefeld]]''', ''Salon''

-->--'''Creator/SteveJobs''', [[http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html Stanford Commencement Speech (2005)]]

-->--'''Creator/JulesValles''', ''The Student''

-->--'''A school janitor''', ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''

-->--'''UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher''', to a student studying Norse literature.

->''"I payed 120.000 dollars so a teacher could tell me to read Creator/JaneAusten, only '''''then I didn't!'''''

-->--'''UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher"''', to a student studying Norse literature.

-->--'''A school janitor''', ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''

->''"Had anyone at my reunion complained about [[GrumpyOldMan the complacency of today’s students]] or bragged about how they got through school without taking on staggering debt, I could have reminded them that the class of [[TheEighties ’84]] was the last to have a higher percentage of grants than loans. Today’s imbalance leads too many students to buy the lie that the humanities are exclusively for rich kids. They worry that those in the 99 percent studying Creator/{{Aristotle}} or VirginiaWoolf are destined for permanent residency in their parents’ basements and, if they are lucky, [[AlmightyJanitor positions as baristas.]]"''

-->--'''Creator/JulesValles''', ''The Student''

''But all that it prepares you for is forty years of teaching it."''\\

''Unless their only other choice were something like Art History''\\

->''"Had anyone at my reunion complained about [[GrumpyOldMan the complacency of today’s students]] or bragged about how they got through school without taking on staggering debt, I could have reminded them that the class of [[TheEighties ’84]] was the last to have a higher percentage of grants than loans. Today’s imbalance leads too many students to buy the lie that the humanities are exclusively for rich kids. They worry that those in the 99 percent studying {{Aristotle}} or VirginiaWoolf are destined for permanent residency in their parents’ basements and, if they are lucky, [[AlmightyJanitor positions as baristas.]]"''

-->''"A tous ceux, qui nourris de grec et de latin, sont morts de faim, je dédie ce livre."''[[labelnote:Trans.]]"To those who, fed on Greek and Latin, died of hunger, I dedy this book."[[/labelnote]]

-->--Magazine/{{MAD}}

-->--'''Creator/SteveJobs''', [[http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html Stanford Commencement Speech (2005)]]

->''Why anyone who wants a job would study [[{{Literature}} Lit]]'s a mystery/''\\
''Unless their only other choice were something like Art History/''\\
''A BA in Communications guarantees that you'll achieve/''\\
''A little less than if you'd learned to underwater basket-weave.''

->''You are a genius if you can finish a five-year course in ancient Babylonian astrology in only two years.\\
You are an idiot if you think anyone is going to hire a guy with a major in ancient Babylonian astrology.''

-->--''Theatre/AvenueQ''

->''You are a genius if you can finish five-year course in ancient Babylonian astrology in only two years.\\

-->--''AvenueQ''

-->''AvenueQ''

->Question: ''What is the first thing an arts major asks when he leaves university?''
->Answer: ''Would you like fries with that?''

->''Why anyone who wants a job would study [[{{Literature}} Lit]]'s a mystery/''
->''Unless their only other choice were something like Art History/''
->''A BA in Communications guarantees that you'll achieve/''
->''A little less than if you'd learned to underwater basket-weave.''

->''You are a genius if you can finnish five-year course in ancient Babylonian astrology in only two years.''
->''You are an idiot if you think anyone is going to hire a guy with a major in ancient Babylonian astrology.''
-->--Magazine/{{MAD}}

-->--Webcomic/{{xkcd}} #1052, "[[http://xkcd.com/1052/ Every Major's Terrible]]"

-->--{{xkcd}} #1052, "[[http://xkcd.com/1052/ Every Major's Terrible]]"

->''Why anyone who wants a job would study [[{{Literature}} Lit]]'s a mystery/
->Unless their only other choice were something like Art History/
->A BA in Communications guarantees that you'll achieve/
->A little less than if you'd learned to underwater basket-weave.''