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Conflating university degrees with the general educational of all citizens is a mistake. Universities are useful in attaining a particular type of education th
by 654869435418647 10y ago
Conflating university degrees with the general educational of all citizens is a mistake.
Universities are useful in attaining a particular type of education that is not suited to every highschool graduate. It's fairly clear once you've spent time on an American university campus that not everyone there "needs" to be there on the governments dime for the betterment of society.
- dexterdog 10y agoWhy do you think they've reduced the level of knowledge of the average HS grad so that they have to go to college to get a decent job? Sure, you have to know more by age 20 now to get employed in a brain-based job, but education should be much easier and more efficient by now.
- saint_fiasco 10y agoIt is. We have MOOCs now, and ebooks, and online encyclopedias. But it's like those synthetic diamonds: It doesn't matter how much shinier, purer and cheaper they are, they will never replace "real" diamonds because the whole purpose of diamonds as a status symbol is that they are expensive.