I completely agree. There are obviously degrees which teach useful skills, but the majority of people studying humanities at a large university shouldn't be there. They're learning very little which is applicable to their life, and they're not bright enough to continue in that area of academia. The actual useful skills that you learn doing an english degree could probably be covered in a single semester.
What is a useful skill? How do you decide if it is useful? Why can't those people spend the time learning what they want to learn? Why does everything have be applicable to life in the way you imply?
Do you know what someone learns from an English degree? How is all that different from a single semester of an English class?
