If one acquires the habit of contemplating vast horizons, overall views, and fine generalisations. one can no longer without impatience allow oneself to be confined within the narrow limits of a special task. Such a remedy (a liberal education) would therefore only make specialisation inoffensive by making it intolerable, and in consequence more or less impossible.
— emile durkheim, the division of labor in society
My master’s degree is worth less than my husband’s bachelor’s degree, according to a survey report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Of course, I don’t need the survey to tell me, since I know it from our paychecks, wherein I earn 79 cents for every dollar he earns. Hey, I must be doing something right: That’s one generous penny more than the national average.