Here's my quandary. My oldest daughter majored in History for 2 semesters. She was always an avid reader with a particularly intense interest in (and knowledge of) WWII and the Civl War. After enduring 5 courses, she gave it up, to my inconsolable dismay. We sat down to discuss her decision, one summer day.
What it boiled down to was how sick she was of professors who glamorize the utopian benefits of communism and demonize everything about America's role in nearly every diplomatic conflict, with the single and sole exception of FDR's entire handling of WWII, after Pearl Harbor. She was particularly tired of being the professors' conservative advocate, and the sarcastic mocking that that position carried, not just from the professors, but by her fellow students who, in her opinion, knew much less about their argument than she did, but who were good at parroting the conventional, left-wing wisdom, so proliferate in the US Press and media culture. The "impartial" professor seemed too often to enjoy the verbal mugging that occurred.
She said, "Dad, we're paying 30 grand a year to get the same indoctrination you can get every day for fifty cents in the newspaper. " In evaluating the monetary comparison, I was forced to agree with her. A business major was more appropriate to her goals.
