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That 'college education' one is tough. 'Opening a restaurant' does not require a Uni education, but I'd rather the person be smarter, more educated, understand
by edblarney 10y ago
That 'college education' one is tough.
'Opening a restaurant' does not require a Uni education, but I'd rather the person be smarter, more educated, understand aesthetics, customers, finance etc. - and be college educated.
You don't need 'high school education' to do a lot of construction work, but I'd rather hire high school graduates.
There's a lot of intelligence that goes into many of these kinds of jobs. As people are smarter, the quality of the output goes up.
- kazagistar 10y agoDo the schools cause the intelligence, or does achievement just measure it? Cause if level of schooling acts more like a measure of certain aptitudes, with the actual information learned being largely useless, then we still are faced with the problem of some people being increasingly unemployable.
- edblarney 10y agoYou could argue then that only few need to go past grade 4 :). I think that Uni develops character, opens horizons, builds esteem and competence in some areas, helps people organize their ideas, 'think bigger' , expose them to all sorts of ideas and disciplines they may have never heard of. People are sometimes smug about 'MBAs'. I was an Eng. - and never took an Econ course in my life. My MBA was mind-altering (granted I also did it overseas and that provided some other kind of exposure). Uni is usually worth it if the kids try to get something out of it.