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There’s more to learning and the life of the mind than how much money it can make you. College shouldn’t entirely be a STEM trade school. Creativity and innovat
by brm 8y ago
There’s more to learning and the life of the mind than how much money it can make you. College shouldn’t entirely be a STEM trade school. Creativity and innovation require cross pollination and I bet if you look harder you find plenty of studio art majors and linguists and English majors doing just fine in the modern world. We can’t all be engineers but we can all learn to apply ourselves across disciplines and that works both ways. The problem seems to be that people believe that college is the only ticket they need and that they don’t need to apply themselves further or continue learning and adapting.
- skookumchuck 8y agoIt would be sensible to google one's career prospects before taking on major debt.
- black6 8y agoYou are absolutely right (I lament the passing of the classic, well-rounded liberal arts education) but you don't have to be an accounting major to realize racking up $100k in debt for an English lit degree just isn't wise.
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- charmides 8y ago"College shouldn’t entirely be a STEM trade school." I appreciate the feedback, but here you are distorting my argument. There is not a binary choice between getting a STEM degree and going into debt for the rest of your life because you spent more than $100,000 on two English degrees. For instance, I think more people should consider learning a skilled trade. "I bet if you look harder you find plenty of studio art majors and linguists and English majors doing just fine in the modern world." There are millions of people with degrees in studio art and linguistics and of course plenty of them are doing just fine. That says little about the wisdom of pursuing such degrees. "The problem seems to be that people believe that college is the only ticket they need and that they don’t need to apply themselves further or continue learning and adapting." This I agree with.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago> College shouldn’t entirely be a STEM trade school. Then colleges need to stop pitching themselves as the gateway to a career. People don't believe these things because they're stupid. They believe these things because colleges systematically lie to them.
- HelloFellowDevs 8y agoI don't think the buck stops at college, we've even gotten to a point where HS/MS teachers are aggressively marketing for colleges as a way to an instant career.