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I am not sure that would even help. The current culture war on the elite campuses and the dominating narrative would probably not be welcoming to a lot of strai

I am not sure that would even help. The current culture war on the elite campuses and the dominating narrative would probably not be welcoming to a lot of straight masculine males with somewhat conservative leanings and on government dime that participated in the US wars. And not be able to give them the environment and support to reintegrate them into society. Very shitty situation. The reason post WWII GI bill worked that well was that there were veterans everywhere from WWI and the draft that they could relate to and get help.

grogenaut 9y ago
Yes, god forbid we encourage mixing of world views because it might challenge both side's opinions of the other and gasp might even lead to some improvements. Lets continue to segregate as much as possible. Also according to wikipedia there has been a form of the GI bill running basically continuously since WWII, so this isn't a new change. What I think is hard about college for a lot of people is that much of the learning, even more than highschool, has no immediate relevance. Heck I remember hating a lot of intro CS classes because I was solving problems I didn't care about. Or think about asking a kid what they'd want to program a computer for. For most it's such an abstract problem to problems they haven't even encountered yet that they can't even think of anything. Same goes for a lot of people which can be a bug turn off for a more traditional college education. That said I still think you need a foundation in the theoretical as well as the practical.
- metaphor 9y ago
  >> Also according to wikipedia there has been a form of the GI bill running basically continuously since WWII, so this isn't a new change. Would you be able to point out more precisely what you were referring to? I did not find such an assertion anywhere on the Wiki page[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill

grogenaut 9y ago

Yes, god forbid we encourage mixing of world views because it might challenge both side's opinions of the other and gasp might even lead to some improvements. Lets continue to segregate as much as possible. Also according to wikipedia there has been a form of the GI bill running basically continuously since WWII, so this isn't a new change. What I think is hard about college for a lot of people is that much of the learning, even more than highschool, has no immediate relevance. Heck I remember hating a lot of intro CS classes because I was solving problems I didn't care about. Or think about asking a kid what they'd want to program a computer for. For most it's such an abstract problem to problems they haven't even encountered yet that they can't even think of anything. Same goes for a lot of people which can be a bug turn off for a more traditional college education. That said I still think you need a foundation in the theoretical as well as the practical.

metaphor 9y ago
>> Also according to wikipedia there has been a form of the GI bill running basically continuously since WWII, so this isn't a new change. Would you be able to point out more precisely what you were referring to? I did not find such an assertion anywhere on the Wiki page[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill