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Treating college as an extension of high school in America seems to come from the post-civil-rights era as a convenient economic weed-out of certain segments of
by Lammy 6y ago
Treating college as an extension of high school in America seems to come from the post-civil-rights era as a convenient economic weed-out of certain segments of society from even entry-level work :/
- erulabs 6y agoI could not agree more. Replacing classism, racism, etc with an -apparent- meritocracy helped the middle class to swallow continuing inequality: instead of keeping the poor folks out - we kept the uneducated out - forgetting the two groups overlap heavily. The number of people my age who speak of their high-end expensive education as if it was entirely merit based (“you have no idea how hard we were worked to get our Degrees!”) always irks me. The worlds best philosophers probably never had a chance to learn to write, the worlds best leaders enough to eat, etc. As a non-college graduate who’s career is going fairly well, I can only hurry to gather as much capital as I can before a real meritocracy emerges: I am not a genius, and there are enough poor geniuses with less opportunities than me to eclipse me many times over.
- me_againnnnnn 6y agoYeah all this talk like there is logic and reason that is honest. It's the way it is so the system can mostly stop people from learning, while looking like teachers. It will be endlessly discussed as though it is a natural phenomenon that is impossible to understand, when all it's for is a method of controlling those who work without choice. Simple to fix, impossible to take away from them.