Lack of interest in humanities

I have seen this A LOT through high school and college, where kids don't care to actually read the books and choose to just watch a film, or even worse just going to spark notes or shmoop to avoid doing any work at all.  You can read about events taking place in history through a different point of view.  Usually a book would be assigned in a class because it held some form of significant stance in our history.  You can learn so many things from stories and really have them expand your mind.  The other issue with watching the film is that more than likely they will leave parts out of the film or even change certain situations, so if you are more visual and feel the film would help you...why not read the book and then watch the film to really help you compare the differences between the two & it would just help remember what all took place.  The lack of interest in humanities has gotten way out of hand!  The percentage of people that end up pursuing a career in the humanities has now dropped half its amount and is under 10%! That truly just blows my mind that so many people aren't willing to learn about all the varieties of art, music, books, etc in the past to really help us evolve for the future.
If you'd like to read the article that got me started on this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-diana-e-sheets/the-crisis-in-the-humanit_b_3588171.html