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>Your life will be battered by bad, uneducated decisions that you spend most of your time trying to fix. I feel like this type of education is the one that you
by tryptophan 6y ago
>Your life will be battered by bad, uneducated decisions that you spend most of your time trying to fix.
I feel like this type of education is the one that you get at home rather than at school. No amount of continually lowering standards, affirmative action, and pushing people through "higher" education will ever fix this.
Problem is, there is a prisoners' dilemma type situation with college. It would be best if nobody went, but nobody wants to be the one left out in case not everyone agrees to do so. So the result is that people waste more and more money on useless degrees, putting those in lower classes into more trouble by trying to better their lives(or just excluding those who won't take the risk).
- NickM 6y ago>It would be best if nobody went That seems like a pretty radical thing to say. Sure, some people go into debt for degrees with questionable job prospects, but you really believe that the world would be better off if nobody went to college?
- tryptophan 6y agoAbsolutely, 100%. I think its becoming increasingly apparent that college is not the right/best model for educating(as in gaining useful knowledge) people.
- sokoloff 6y agoDo you want to eliminate white-collar jobs? Who will give you medical care, dentistry, engineer new products, design new buildings, etc? You can call it a "better model that's not called college", but I bet it's going to look a lot like college.