"For one thing, many people believe that there is still plenty of writing going on in school, that in fact written work is the basis of much of what goes on in the classroom, although the facts on the ground belie it. And there's also a sense, in a technological world, that writing, particularly creative writing, is a kind of soft science, secondary to the quantitative. Parents who have rightly concluded that a college education is a pricey investment in an uncertain future may deride the prospect: 'Poetry? Really? How will that help with getting a job?' Yet one survey of executives showed that, almost universally, they rated writing skills as extremely important, no matter what business they happened to be in, and they were inclined to hire English majors because of that."
~~ from Write for Your Life by Anne Quindlen
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