@D0NK
Thought education for educations sake was frowned upon by a lot of people now… Unfortunately.
I think you are right, but that this is precisely the problem.
This society will never have a caste of creative, free thinkers if its population studies only to become economic units.
I would rather have one my kids study Classics and end up working as a bike mechanic than to have them obsessing over their UCAS application to read ‘museum curatorship’ or some such nonsense just because they think that by reading *’museum curatorship’ will somehow get them a job.
*Not that there would be any problem with ‘museum curatorship’ for someone who only wanted to be a museum curator (not that there is such a course). Having said that, I would think that someone who read ‘museum curatorship’ alone would be at a disadvantage when compared to an academically-sound Classicist who happened to move into curatorship. If you know what I mean.