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I actually prefer the US system in that it potentially provides doctors with a more well-rounded education.
by andrewpi 11y ago
I actually prefer the US system in that it potentially provides doctors with a more well-rounded education.
- XorNot 11y agoAh yes, the moral duty American colleges feel for ensuring a rounded education at the low low price of tens of thousands of dollars per year.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoMy CS degree focused on a rounded education, which would have been okay if it had also taught me how to, say, write a useful program. I didn't realize 'til I'd graduated that I would have to teach myself if I wanted a career.
- krisdol 11y agoTo be fair it was never called a degree in programming.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoWhen I signed up for classes, I said I wanted to be a programmer, and the advisor said "oh, you want Computer Science, then." That was just as much a lie as if they'd called it Programming outright.
- rz2k 11y agoRunning a democratic country is expensive, but better than any of the alternatives!
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoI'm torn, because on the one hand it is good for people to have a decently broad base of knowledge. On the other hand, most US colleges' idea of a "well-rounded education" is a straight-up holdover from educational programs whose only purpose was to prepare rich men's sons to make interesting conversation at parties and handle Daddy's business. When modern students actually want career prep, universities tell them they're getting career prep, and instead feed them dinner party prep at umpty-thousand dollars a year.
- zanny 11y agoOnce upon a time in a fantasy land called... the 1970s? most people thought a high school diploma was a well rounded education. If you are going to bring up costs of college, you also need to bring up why college is expected to replace high school.