How to stop people doing pointless degrees

Not Stem or Oxbridge.

I'm intending to do medicine at university: for my fourth AS option, I could have picked physics or further maths and therefore had a totally STEM A-level profile, but no, I took philosophy instead. Why? Because I adore the subject and it gives me both a break and a different perspective from a world that is completely scientific. Even though it will put an awful lot more pressure on my next year when I need to get the best grades in order to be a medic, I'm going to take all four subjects next year, and for exactly the same reason. I don't particularly care if some consider humanities subjects to be 'pointless', because I would have a dramatically different mindset if I had not decided to choose that subject.

Also, Pythagoras' mathematical theorem? Developed by an ancient Greek philosopher.

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1 + 4 = 5 then U exists

U = unicorns.

Unicorns exist.

Therefor unicorn horns exist.

Now please respect my position and let me take load so money in academia for my unicorn theology based on the logic surrounding unicorn horns philosophy research.

That';s basically what theology is. It's philosophy sure, but the base assumption of it does not in anyway have grounding in reality so it all fulls apart. It;s bad philosophy.

I'm goign to bed and will dream fo unicorns. My sensors will tell me I am seeing unicorns so they must exist.

Famous historical philosophers tend to be mathematcians and vice versa. The subjects are sisters.

Depends on what one means by a useless degree. Even if you major in Underwater Basketweaving or whatever, you still learn how to balance a workload, maintaining a schedule, performing tasks on demand, understanding what's asked of you, etc. A degree offers skills beyond whatever label happens to get stuck on it.

These days it's often less about what you know and more about who you know as well as your ability to present yourself and deal with people. Networking is a vastly underrated skill to have. An awkward STEM-lord is going to struggle if they can't get through an interview. Does that mean their degree was pointless?

I may be wrong but the ancients didn't distinguish between the two, or even physics proper, pretty much all enquiry was considered philosophy, which while fine until around the 18th century its antiquated now.

kinda but specifically maths and phil are linked and the link continues long after other subjects emerge out of philosophy.

Well many mathematicians contributed to philosophy in the twentieth century, set theory, formal logic, and so on, but I think saying that mathematicians are philosophers is missing the point, bin men think but no one attributes it to philosophy. Obviously some of them are philosophers (Russell clearly was since he wrote a history of the subject) but a lot of the questions that are asked now are quite specifically limited to non-mathematical considerations like ethics.

but ethicists would still use logic and stuff. in method the subjects are similar.

I know a lot of people like to take art, psychology, sociology, geography, history, English, economics at Unis like Manchester met. So my idea is that we should lower the amount we pay for uni but everyone has to pay - no matter how much their salary is after they have left uni. This could discourage people to do the pointless degrees above.

Theology made sense when you considered Aristotelian physics the most advanced, it assumed that all things acted towards final purposes which must implicitly assume the existence of a prime mover. Theology died when Aristotle (figuratively) died.

No it doesn't. In the same way just because cosmology points towards a central point from which the universe we live in expanded out from deosn't implicitly mean anything of the sort either.

It does if you are working within an Aristotelian understanding of motion... You can argue from modern physics if you like, but you need to understand why otherwise intelligent people thought like this. Thomas Aquinas clearly wasn't an idiot.