Who wrote The Canterbury Tales? When did the Civil War occur? What was the Renaissance? If you know the answers to these questions, you’re probably not a high school student. A recent survey by Common Core found that American teenagers are “stunningly ignorant” when it comes to humanities like literature and history. I suppose one could argue that kids don’t need to know these facts to land a job in sales or software engineering. And if we’re content to be a nation of industrious, productive, and wholly unimaginative worker bee dullards, then we should by all means limit access to liberal arts education to the wealthy elite. After all, only the rich can afford to take the time to read Shakespeare and Plato. Us proles need to learn our numbers and letters so that we can fulfill our destinies of serving the knowledgeable and informed (i.e. the ruling class).
Sorta following your facetiousness here. To my mind, relevancy and specialization of knowledge are key to producing educated individuals with secured potential and proven capabilities. Ya dig?