"Folks can make a lot more potentially with
skilled manufacturing or the trades than they
might with an art history degree.
Now, there's nothing wrong with an art history
degree.
I love art history so I don't want to get
a bunch of email from everybody."
(Via The White House SaveFrom.net)
That jab at art history majors is from a speech
last month in Wisconsin where President Obama
was stressing the importance of skilled labor.
But, despite his little disclaimer there...
"The President did receive an email from professor
Ann Collins Johns.
She teaches art history at the University
of Texas at Austin.
Johns wrote that her courses challenge students
to think, read, and write."
(Via CBS)
Well, now President Obama is back tracking
and has issued an apology to Johns.
Obama penned a handwritten apology to the
professor, calling his remarks "off-the-cuff"
and "glib".
He mentions "art history was one of my favorite
subjects in high school".
(Via The Huffington Post)
"Well how about that?!"
"Pretty cool"
"You would think he'd be so busy he wouldn't
personally respond to letters like that.
That's something."
(Via KCPQ)
While Johns told The Huffington Post she respects
the president and the message he was trying
to convey that day and his apology supposedly
won over the KCPQ anchors, one Republican
politician didn't like it.
Florida Republican representative Marco Rubio
called Obama's apology "pathetic" saying,
"We do need more degrees that lead to #job".
(Via Twitter / @marcorubio)
Johns was surprised by the personal apology,
writing on her Facebook page that she didn't
expect a letter from "the man himself".
