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For some definition of "is available." If these 17yos are already capable of conducting research based on primary sources and not provided to them in a structur
by torstenvl 6y ago
For some definition of "is available." If these 17yos are already capable of conducting research based on primary sources and not provided to them in a structured learning environment, why do they need to go to college?
The implicit blame-placing in "students aren't using it" is unhelpful. We're mostly talking about people who, by definition, haven't even graduated high school.# If DoE wants students armed with this information, it should do a better job of setting policy for guidance counselors.
# Yes, there are non-traditional students but they are in the minority. Yes, people can switch majors, but there's enormous cost to doing so for the populations we're talking about.
- hemloc_io 6y agoExactly, this is what gets me about the student debt debate as well. For some reason we've structured the system with the expectation that 17 yr olds are perfectly rational actors.
- travisoneill1 6y ago> If these 17yos are already capable of conducting research based on primary sources and not provided to them in a structured learning environment, why do they need to go to college? That's a lot of words to say "Googling things", and yes 17 year olds are capable of it. And they go to college for the same reason everyone else does, to buy a credential.
- cedilla 6y agoIronically, the idea that "googling things" about a topic won't lead to reductive and incomplete answers might exactly be why you give such a reductive and incomplete answer here.