Why Are There So Few English Majors?

Most people aren't pre-law. They're most likely to be business majors. But 9 out of 10 times they won't go into business when they finish school. Declaring "business major" is a cop out. I guess I'm just pissed at the fact that some people only go to school to get a degree, not to get a career going.

I know several people from my college years that majored in History, English and similar majors and most of these individuals upon graduation with their bachelors and the discovery of their economic earning potential quickly RAN to take the LAST. The admissions in this country for law schools is booming exponentially and we are turning out more bottom-feeders than ever! I agree with you. To think that just a little over 100 years ago an accountant was about the highest paying job around. Medicine wasn't even a university major and a Dentist was held in higher regard than attorney's. During the last Presidential primary 4 years ago I sat down to have a quick beer and this gentleman sitting next to me asked what I thought of the primaries. I told him that any place that held that many attorneys should be leveled. He started to laugh and said thats my man! Then explained that during any revolution the first to go are the lawyers and politicians as they are the two most worthless and disruptive to the advance of man's freedom. Turns out he was a History Professor at the University. We had a pretty stimulating conversation on the issue. I believe that English majors, History, Art whatever it may be that promotes a society are what make a society. To think that this country is turning into nothing but the contradictory unbalance of Law is not what I call progress. I just have a problem with people that write laws, then find all the loop-holes and nuances that benefit them and basically produce nothing more than the cottage industry of our courts, run by whom, Judges, which are attorney's, politicians whom are mostly attorneys and the whole system of not right and wrong, guilty or innocent but what makes us the most money and the profiting off other's misfortune. The secret motto of these bloodsuckers is there is never a winning party or a happy party to legal action except the two attorneys having a drink after court counting there fees!

I'm an English major to become a teacher. It is one thing that we all need, the other two being math and science teachers