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"I suffered, so they should too". That's all I have to say about your fury. As for the other part: I was told, explicitly, that thinking about college as a job
by Afton 6y ago
"I suffered, so they should too". That's all I have to say about your fury.
As for the other part:
I was told, explicitly, that thinking about college as a jobs-training experience was the wrong approach. Learning how to think, how to write, how to organize ideas, that was valuable in and of itself. And maybe at some time, it was true. With a degree in the '70s, you could get in to a lot of sensible middle-class jobs, even in art-history and psychology.It turned out not to be true [edit: when I was in college, not in the '70s], but I was ill equipped to understand that.
I also suspect that you have only the most superficial understanding of your cohort's motivations, yet seem absolutely confident in your analysis. I wonder if a course in psychology or philosophy would have benefited you some.
- yostrovs 6y agoYou dismiss me, but I spent four years alongside people who repeatedly and consistently followed the "money is not important to me" mantra. They were adults, old enough to understand consequences. But money was not important to them. We were in ones of the most expensive colleges in the nation, mind you. Now money matters to them, and they would rather someone else covers their debts, someone who actually generates productive output. And these people are almost exclusively from the economically upper quartile of the population. They want Bob the plumber to pay for their anthro degree. Lol. Now how about you take some sociology classes to understand this situation?