English Majors...

This particular post is going to be a little more harsh than any of my other posts. I was in a pretty crappy situation the other day in a class and I really think this is the perfect time and topic to share it with this class. I feel like the reason Dr. Dana asked us to post this topic was for us to gain an understanding and appreciation, amongst other things, for the other concentrations represented in this class. I could not be happier with this particular post because I was faced with a very ignorant and pompous person in my field class who would really benefit from this class and, shall we say, a better education???

We did a group activity in my class and when he found out I was an English major, he said, AND I QUOTE, EXACTLY, "Wow. An English major? Must be nice to sit around and do nothing all day long. When you want to be involved in a real major with interesting things, let me know and I'll show you what real work is about." IGNORANT MUCH? I don't go around bashing what other people do so don't go bashing English majors, who, in my totally unbiased opinion, are some of the hardest working people in the school. We have to know our history, our science, some mathematics and our health just to be able to fully understand a book and create a comprehensive lesson plan from it. And we sit around eating bon-bons all day long...Oooookay.

This would be the same thing as me saying oh, phys. ed., who needs that class? It's totally pointless and so are the people who teach it. It's not true and is an ignorant response, so why do it? Why can't we all work together and realise that we all have the same goal? Maybe if we worked harder to abolish these stereotypes, we wouldn't have so many problems in our high schools today.