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Thehumanities:Outofdate?

人文学科：过时了吗？

Whenthegoinggetstough,thetoughtakeaccounting.Whenthejobmarket

worsens,manystudentscalculatetheycantmajorinEnglishorhistory.They

havetostudysomethingthatbooststheirprospectsoflandingajob.

当形势变得困难时，强者会去选学会计。当就业市场恶化时，许多学生估算着他们不能再主

修英语或历史。他们得学一些能改善他们就业前景的东西。

Thedatashowthatasstudentshaveincreasinglyshoulderedtheever-risingc

ostoftuition,theyhavedefectedfromthestudyofthehumanitiesandtoward

appliedscienceandandthattheybetwillleadtoemployment.Inoth

erwords,acollegeeducationismoreandmoreseenasameansforeconomic

bettermentratherthanameansforhumanbetterment.Thisistrendathati

slikelytopersistandevenaccelerate

数据显示，随着学生肩负的学费不断增加，他们已从学习人文学科转向他们相信有益于将来

就业的应用科学和硬技能。换言之，大学教育越来越被看成是改善经济而不是提升人类自

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身的手段。这种趋势可能会持续，甚至有加快之势。

Overthenextfewyears,aslabormarketsstruggle,thehumanitieswillproba

blycontinuetheirlongslideinsuccession.Therealreadyhasbeenanearly50

slide

percentdeclineintheportionofliberalartsmajorsoverthepastgeneratio

portion

n,anditislogicaltothinkthatthetrendisboundtocontinueorevenaccel

logical

erate.Oncethedominantpillarsofuniversitylife,thehumanitiesnowplayli

dominant