Humanities no longer in the top 10 of the most popular fields of study in Poland

While in 2009/2010 half of top 10 most chosen faculties in Poland were humanities, now it's only 1 out of 10.



It seems that young (or their parents) realize that there is no job in Poland for teachers. Sadly there is not enough jobs for engineers too.

I wonder if that reflects economic uncertainty. A very great shame, since there's a strong tradition of the humanities in Poland and a good rounded education prepares you for many fields of work.

Yes, that is why our current Prime Minister is a historian by profession. His predecessor, Tusk, is, too. Wow, even our two last Presidents are humanities graduates.

....but it takes STEM nerds to know that you can't deficit spend forever, that money is not wealth, and that it doesn't grow on trees.

The focus of study has changed. Colleges and uníversíties are expected to become vocational centers which "dispense" job skills and little more. Once a student complained in class that I and the other professors were making too many intellectual demands on him, after all, he maintained, he was studying to be an electrician. At that point, I rose and asked the gentleman whether because he worked for a living with his hands meant he didn't work with his mind:-) As a boy, I remember our workmen were all modestly well-spoken and well-educated!

That`s my approach, too - force as much knowledge, ideas and thinking into their poor heads as possible. There is a chance that some of it will stay there forever and give fruit one day

There seems no other sane, mature, human choice in the matter.

Very sensible. And yes, the only approach.

It's sad that fewer people are studying humanities. We need the scientists and mathematicians, however we also need other kinds of thinkers too, and of course art, philosophy and literature don't create themselves.

Quite. Being manually inclined needn't exclude being mentally astute and active.

Usually somehow it only works one way...
Noone expects humanity inclined person to be good at physics, chemistry etc. Noone is surprised if an intellectual cannot build a bookshelf...

Btw, forcing people to learn something is usually a very crap strategy and a waste of time

No one, Lenka? I'd be.

Like dissecting frogs. This experience left me so disgusted that I would rather starve to death than prepare a chicken for dinner.


Intellectuals have a bigger problem...They never, ever live the moment - here and now. Always somewhere else...

Without intellect, we're animals aka Nazis.

aka religious fanatics?

Your intellect is still not intellectual enough to see the irony of your own posts.
So, let me help you...Those Nazis were the top 1% on the list of the most educated brains on this planet. They were so sure of their intellectual superiority that they didn't bother to simply add numbers before they fired the first shot.

The super irony: it was the Soviets - unwashed and uneducated - that raped their women and urinated on their graves. Good.

Educated and "cultivated", but hardly ENLIGHTENED!

No, will not be playing "global warming" to "climate change" retreat games.
You wrote "intellect", we will stay with "intellect". Nazis were full of "intellect" and many other virtues on your list, including the love of music and paintings they would remove from the enemy museums.

BTW, you owe an apology to animals.

Because Hitler was a teatotler, non-smoker, and animal lover didn't mean he wasn't also a mass murderer.

Playing stupid again...


I am not going to repeat that the Nazis were intellectuals.

Pseudo--

Pseudo what? Pseudo-stupid, pseudo-Nazis or pseudo-intellectual?
BTW, Himmler was a lot smarter than you. Read about the guy here...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler

...and tell me that you are smarter.

No pseudo-intellectual had his skills.

Dp you want to try Joseph Goebbels? You will lose again.

Using intellect to pervert and to condone mass murder nullifies its inherent value.

No, it does not. Intellect is intellect just like IQ is IQ. What you do with it is another matter. A high IQ of 150 does not become 75 just because you are a murder.

This is one more example of how debating a slippery verbal weasel leads to nowhere.

Teachers, you monsters, leave the kids alone! Burn down all schools! Dissolve all classes! Zero waste education!! :):):)

Life is not binary and Lenka is right.

The problem is that I never give up and insist on teaching against some students` will and preferences. I am so stubborn. I can`t help it. :):)

...because you are dealing with a captive audience. It's the Women's Studies and crap like this that sensible people avoid like a plague.

Women`s Studies? That is the most thrilling subject/faculty/field of all! I have studied it all my life with amazing results.

Only from the medical point of view and with pictures.

That`s an opinion of a vulgar voyeur. :):) While I meant sth more sublime - e.g., philosophical and psychological studies of the female soul.