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Well, yes but the other 90%+ just need to get a job out of college to support their addiction to food and shelter not to be a “better citizen of the world” unless they have parents to subsidize their livelihood either through direct transfers of money or by letting them stay at home.

I told both of my (step)sons that I would only help them pay for college or trade school - their choice - if they were getting a degree in something “useful”. Not philosophy, not Ancient Chinese Art History etc.

I also told them that they would have to get loans in their own names and I would help them pay off the loans once they graduated and started working gainfully.

My otherwise ordinary school applied the mentality that students must "Learn to learn", and that mix of skills and mindset has never stopped helping me.

I think good historians are on the same foot as philosophers in the arena of "thinking really fucking hard and making an airtight analysis".