How worthless is Philosophy?

[vulcanlogician]

Should this discipline be required in college? Should students who are pursuing unrelated degrees be required to take any philosophy classes at all at university? Why or why not?

What about History? Should business majors be required to take History 101? Why or why not?

Personally, I think philosophy is largely useless unless one thinks that politics, law, or morality is useful. So, therefore, I tend to think that most philosophy courses are useless to those who pursue business degrees and such. Even scientists, though they may be interested in philosophy, and not too shabby at philosophizing either... philosophy doesn't help science much at all. Even philosophy of science doesn't help science. Let alone the rest of it.

But I do think philosophy is immensely useful to those who pursue political science or law. Maybe even science to some degree. But, meh. Only so useful to scientists...

I think two philosophy courses ought to be required of all students: ethics 101 and logic 101. Beyond that, philosophy is useless to the vast majority of professions.

I can't tell you the exact numbers. But I bet you I learned more useful things in philosophy class. That might not be the same for my friend Billy. Maybe Billy learned all kinds of useful things in business class, and little to none in philosophy class.

My best guess: if Billy learned logic ans ethics, we'd all be better off. If you disagree with that, there are plenty of good reasons why.