I didn't say I have any difficulty comprehending my courses. I said it takes less time and effort to take some formulae and apply them to different sets of numbers and symbols than it does to construct a 12 page term paper with solid supported arguments and secondary sources, for example. As long as you're not the type who can't handle numbers and symbols. There isn't exactly a lot of independent thought involved in finding the value of x. I know that there are science courses that are plenty hard, but I also know there's a good share of science students who wouldn't excel in my area. Just wait for MCAT season and listen to them complain about how it includes an evaluation on writing skills. There are intelligence types who freak out when there's only right or wrong (or black and white), and there are intelligence types who freak out when there's more than that. You can be either and still be an idiot or an intellectual.

Society doesn't value liberal arts degrees because they aren't utilitarian. I know I'm not getting a job based on my ability to interpret Shakespeare or understand the sociological forces behind inequality. But that's really only an issue if all I plan to do is get an undergraduate, or if all I had been doing with mine was the so-called navel gazing.

It's also a way for people to protect their jobs... if a high school education is enough to do your job, how do you protect your career from being swamped by people willing to do it cheaper? You require a degree that entails an upfront investment. This pushes away many of those potential job-seekers.

I interact with people with liberal arts degrees constantly. I crush their arguments and slaughter their logic-free ideas with ease - including people who hold PhDs and serve as tenured professors. I don't need to have taken liberal arts classes myself. I can look at what those who take *and* teach the classes know, and for most of them, it's not the least bit impressive.

There's a reason that society gives very little weight to liberal arts degrees, and it's not because there's a conspiracy on the part of we fact-brained. It's because you precious darlings spent 4 years frittering away time contemplating and your navels.

You clearly lack understanding of what goes into the courses you're talking about, apparently it's not thinking math is hard but thinking everything else is easy. I've taken mid level calculus and it didn't hold a candle to the workload and effort involved in some of my 4th year English courses. If I had any interest in math as a career, a degree in that wouldn't have been harder.