Under these circumstances, it's natural to look for what may appear to be the most "practical" way out of the problem "Major in a subject designed to get you a job" seems the obvious answer to some, though this ignores the fact that many disciplines in the humanities characterized as "soft" often, in fact, lead to employment and success in the long run.

As a poet, Ted Hughes had an acute sensitivity to the way in which constraints on self-expression, like the disciplines of metre and rhyme (韻律), spur creative thought

In the America of our own time, the great educational challenge has become an effort to strengthen the teaching of what is now known as the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math).

There is considerable and justified concern that the United States is falling behind much of the rest of the developed world in these essential disciplines

Humanistic disciplines are seriously underfunded, not just by the government and the foundations but by academic institutions themselves.

America is lagging behind in the STEM disciplines

As a consequence, they lag behind other disciplines.

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

The collaborative trend is true across scientific disciplines.

No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities.

So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.

These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English.