teven Pearlstein published "Meet the parents who wouldn’t let their children study literature" on September 2, 2016. His article is based on his experience of learning how most students do not study literature and why they don’t study it. What Steven learned was far from what he had though when he first walked into the honors college class to teach. He figured most of the students would have taken some kind of liberal arts class but only one out of the twenty four students had takes a course of that matter.
Steven found that the students parents were the reason why they had not studied literature. He then realized how much impact parents had on there children, even though the students are capable of making there own choices, they still continue to let there parents tell them what to do. Christy Buchanan, head of academic advising at Wake Forest University called this "helicopter parenting." Meaning the students parents just hover over the kids and tell them exactly what to do. A example of this is a girl was in a liberal arts information session and her mother and father texted her to tell her she needed to
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Steven also made it clear that it is not just the parents that are driving students away form English and history majors, it is also the media, politicians, and each other. Students are hearing that it is hard for someone with a history major to find a job other teaching or working in a museum; and for someone who loves history this can be discouraging and could make them change there mind on majoring in liber arts. The media plays a role in how people feel about liberal education, by talking bad about the majors and how you wont be able to find a "good job" like you would if you chose a major outside of liberal