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There's the personal aspect of education, which hopefully makes you a better person, and there's the professional aspect of education, which makes you more empl
by rdancer 11y ago
There's the personal aspect of education, which hopefully makes you a better person, and there's the professional aspect of education, which makes you more employable.
The problem is that the two get conflated. The right to tertiary-level education in the EU (do you live in the EU?) should be for the former. I'm skeptical, though, that many people are willing to pursue personal development at the university level. But they want the prestige of being "educated". So we end up with technical colleges playing at being universities, badly, and churning out graduates who are unemployable: You get neither personal, nor professional education. It's of no benefit to you or the society.
I wish I had a good suggestion for a cure to this malaise. Myself, I said: "fuck it", left my country, went to a top UK uni, dropped out, and started a business.
- MIKarlsen 11y agoI can only envy your drive, because I don't have much left. And yes, I live in the EU (Denmark). In this automated world, I would wish I'd spent more time trying to learn a technical skill, but I'm left purely with analytical skills, which does not seem to be in high demand at the moment.
- rdancer 11y agoLet me just remind you that you seem to be rationalizing your depression as coming from your professional prospects, which it is not. Because objectively, opportunity-wise, you are doing all right. You already have one degree, can go anywhere within EU, and get paid to study for another degree, and another, and another, until you decide to enter the workforce. You're not "left" with your degree. People in my parents' generation were done with studies, and that was it, they could never go back to uni. We can, and we get paid to do that. That's awesome. Come and study in UK[1]. [1] https://www.ucas.com https://www.ucas.com