Originally Posted by Wren
If you get an A average on graduation from engineering, you get 100% student debt forgiveness, B is 80%. If you take a liberal arts degree, you keep your debt. Like we need police, but we don't necessarily need public decorations at holiday time. The latter is nice but is a cost for prettiness not safety. Treat degree outcomes instead of upfront tuition benefits.

Why wouldn't this work? Then we get people trained for things we need, not just are pretty.

There is a lot of merit to your thought patterns there, however, you're likely to get the argument that the arts are just as much "needed" as anything else. We're a society that has great difficulty understanding the difference between want and need.