No, to graduate with a university degree in whatever subject you need to be able to work independently and at a high level, and many perceived 'soft' subjects (as perceived by the general public with no experience of what these things actually involve) involve a lot of complex knowledge and skills. Higher education isn't just about reciting a string of academic facts but skills in independent learning, the ability to research facts, and make assessments and consider the evidence for or against something - all the sorts of skills you'd need in the workplace working at a high level.
No knowledge is wasted, and all forms of study can develop skills and abilities that can be used in other areas and are used in employment.
When I first left school I did a teaching degree. My subject specialism was geography, and the course involved not only learning how to teach children geography, but studying geography at an undergraduate level. Geography, a social science, though isn't just countries and flags...just some of the activities I remember getting involved in were mapping the underground supply of utilities such as water, gas, electricity etc., studying sea tides and coastal erosion, how towns and cities developed and why street layouts developed as they did (often in response to the development of industry), how the economics of countries inter-react, how populations move around countries and how that affects employment and the need for public services, hydrology and measuring the flow of rivers, which involves complex calculations about the area and volume of a river, and how continued rain and the drainage of surface and underground water would swell a river, possibly leading to the danger of flooding agricultural and residential land...
A few years later I did a psychology degree which covered in depth the physiology of the brain, how the memory system works, using complex computer programmes to try to simulate the processing of the human brain, how the cognitive processing of the brain occurs and how vision, hearing, and other senses combine to give us a sense of place in the world, how human relationships develop and social groups interact, how normal psychology can go wrong to cause mental illness. Psychological experiments and studies involved complex mathematical equations and statistical tests...
Many of these skills are skills that I use every day in my work - statistical tests and calculations, knowledge from my studies that give me the background information I need to be able to do my job.
Though I now work in a totally different industry to that I joined after college and university, I still use a lot of the skills and knowledge from college and university and have post-graduate and professional qualifications...
...stupid?
