And now Earlham doesn’t have a philosophy major anymore.

TBH, I don’t care that much about whether majors continue, except schools are infatuated with unimportant metrics, and if you don’t have a lot of majors your admin looks askance and wonders whether you’re really helping anyone out.

Perhaps it is special pleading for my guild, but the classes my philosophy colleagues and I teach to non-majors feel important. I mean classes on ethics, logic, critical thinking and reading, the history of ideas, the development of mathematics and science, great texts of the world—those classes seem to benefit students and the community regardless of the line of work our students wind up in.

It feels like it is time to reimagine education altogether.