We are academics, we are hard-core!

Yes, it's true, the people behind Wenzel, are nothing but a bunch of pencil pushing geeks with advanced high school diplomas and more than one university degree to each of their names. We admit it, so the following BBC article gave us pause for thought: just how rampant are the "soft subjects"? We keep hearing talk of American college courses on Elvis Presley or philosophy of the Matrix, and the ubiquitious film studies. We also have a tendency to look down our noses at Faculties of Education and Management, faculties we sometimes think belong more at the community college level and less at the Ivy Tower (with apologies to our own Sean Marchetto, who daylights as a school teacher himself). Our belief is still that in our current social state, education should be a process oriented affair, encouraging critical thinking and further study. Do people dismiss so-called "soft subjects" on the basis of "content" or "skills"?