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Now that I think about it, public education is great training for a future of working in open-offices. You learn to accept that you have to wake up at an arbit

by douche 11y ago

Now that I think about it, public education is great training for a future of working in open-offices. You learn to accept that you have to wake up at an arbitrary time, spend eight hours getting very little productive done, whilst being bombarded with noise, interruptions, and politics, then if you want to make any real progress, you have to do it afterwards on your own time, outside the school/work day.

HillaryBriss 11y ago
One can make the case that, in California, the higher education system was purposefully, consciously stratified along career and status tiers, as you described. Community college system = workers in the practical trades Cal State system = office workers UC system = technologists, scientists, managers Big name, elite, private universities = executives and high level politicians, the people who actually run society and its institutions And, if you look at the architecture on the various campuses, it more or less reflects that. Also, all of the community colleges, and an awful lot of the Cal State schools are commuter campuses. You come and you go. It's not your home. You're a renter. The place shuts down around 10 pm. (Get out of here, kids.) By contrast, the elite private schools have sufficient dorm/house space to allow most of the students to live on-site: the students have a lot more access to buildings and more or less "own" the place while they're there.
- recondite 11y ago
  Having attended school in California at a community college, UC, and finally an elite, private university I couldn't more agree with your characterization. I don't know how much I would agree with the claim that the stratification was purposefully constructed (I'd argue it's more of a reflection of American society writ large - i.e. successful parents have more resources to ensure their kids are successful), but otherwise this rings very true.

by douche 11y ago

HillaryBriss 11y ago

One can make the case that, in California, the higher education system was purposefully, consciously stratified along career and status tiers, as you described. Community college system = workers in the practical trades Cal State system = office workers UC system = technologists, scientists, managers Big name, elite, private universities = executives and high level politicians, the people who actually run society and its institutions And, if you look at the architecture on the various campuses, it more or less reflects that. Also, all of the community colleges, and an awful lot of the Cal State schools are commuter campuses. You come and you go. It's not your home. You're a renter. The place shuts down around 10 pm. (Get out of here, kids.) By contrast, the elite private schools have sufficient dorm/house space to allow most of the students to live on-site: the students have a lot more access to buildings and more or less "own" the place while they're there.

recondite 11y ago
Having attended school in California at a community college, UC, and finally an elite, private university I couldn't more agree with your characterization. I don't know how much I would agree with the claim that the stratification was purposefully constructed (I'd argue it's more of a reflection of American society writ large - i.e. successful parents have more resources to ensure their kids are successful), but otherwise this rings very true.