Is Philosophy in danger of being discontinued as a college subject?

Answer 1

When colleges finish turning into trade schools, you'll see that. As long as they are havens for the pursuit of knowledge, it will still be taught. Otherwise, everyone would just read Neitzche and think they know everything.

Answer 2

Oh no, I think they'd get rid of the practical subjects first. But it's not because I think universities have a deep love of philosophy, I think that philosophy departments as well as many other 'non'-practical majors have developed a tremendous system to stay alive in universities. I like to call these systems 'pyramid schemes.' You have a lot of curious students who pay all their money to learn philosophy. Why? So that they can get to the next stage, becoming a graduate student, where they'll neither pay nor be paid for all their work. They'll work and work and work all in hopes of reaching the final stage where they're paid to just talk about what they've spent their whole life paying to talk about. The beauty is that most of the kids will give up sometime in the middle and will take normal jobs, and all their money in the pyramid is lost- it goes to the top. It's a great system! Why would they ever want to get rid of it?

Answer 3

Well,id like to say something quite negatively;
I dont think it will matter; important questions are rarely tackled there; and the reason is not hard to figure.So-called
"leaders" and much more importantly,ordinary people have come to believe that philosophy represents something "mystic" and personally embracing,or something
which gives so-called important textbook answers("defined
answers").
Some of us believe nothing of this sort,that philosophy can
give important answers to important questions.Its a bit like a "mindset", where one talks aound a subject to get a feel
for it.
But the school system obviously does not allow free-thinking
as in learning-by-mental risk taking;or even,it seems, by the
more elaborate but more precise Learning-from-ones-mistakes. And our ancestors made plenty ;and by our refusal
to discuss them, we have become mentally and socially
poorer.
And i would say that the education edifice that has been built
is rather like the concrete skyscraper ones in some cities;
a monument to mans energy and creation-not to the gods
of old but to the god of oil and its crowded darwinian cities.

Answer 4

It's a great money maker for the school as it has the lowest expectation and the highest attendance so the likelihood that a school would get rid of it's most profitable arm is slim. It wouldn't matter anyway. It does nothing to help you live and is useless in creating income in any way other than teaching it back to others hoping to get something out of it.