Kentucky’s Lt. Governor Wants You Not To Study History
“(College is) not a right, it’s a privilege.”
Red Alert Politics reports.
Kentucky Lt. Gov.: Don’t study history (Here’s why)
Kentucky’s Lt. Governor Jenean Hampton (R) has some advice for millennials: go to college to study a field that will land you a job.
“I would not be studying history,” the Lt. Governor said in an interview with Eastern Progress on Thursday. “(College is) not a right, it’s a privilege. Those of us who go to work must give part of their earnings to put you through college, and I disagree with that.”
Hampton has been receiving criticism since the Governor imposed a 4.5 percent budget cut to higher education. She has insisted that students who are prepared to work hard can still find a way to make college affordable and college should be moving funds away from programs that won’t help students get a job after graduation.
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Actually, history is a good thing to study. The problem is that what is taught these days isn’t really accurate history. Students should study things which have value in the market place. That would exclude all the “studies” and social “science” majors. They constitute nothing more than participation degrees.