There is a lot of debate throughout the world regarding the purpose of education. Some countries pursue an approach which requires students to specialise their education early on so that they are more capable in subjects which they can then pursue a career in, while others like the USA offer a more liberal approach to education for students, where they acquire a broad range of knowledge and skills which may or may not aid them in pursuing a career.

If you were to ask people when they are 16 what they want to do with their life, most would tell you that they don’t really know. This would seem to support the liberal approach to education, but when you look at that approach in practice you see how a lot of people end up studying courses when there is no market for people with those skills.