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To the 1940's, the last decade IMO when the only people who went to college went because they wanted to learn about meaningful questions on those subjects. Man
by dev1n 10y ago
To the 1940's, the last decade IMO when the only people who went to college went because they wanted to learn about meaningful questions on those subjects. Many students go to college now, but very few go on to actually study the foundational subjects that these universities were built upon.
- dragonwriter 10y agoYou're off by several centuries if that was ever true. College had been an important element of social status signaling for much longer than since the 1940s, though the particular status level that college in general or particular institutions are associated with had sorry drifted over time. If there was ever a time that people went to college exclusively it off a pure desire to "learn about meaningful questions" on any day of subjects, it was in the very distant past. But there probably never was such a time at all.
- TorKlingberg 10y agoI assume you also object to the 60's civil rights movement in universities in the same way then?
- Aelinsaar 10y agoAre you saying that students today are involved in a similarly important, organized, and effective movement as the 60's civil right's movement?
- sotojuan 10y agoWhether that's true or not, part of the reason why things seem bad now is because society tells high schoolers that if they don't go to college (for any reason and almost any major) they're failures.