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That's entirely not the point of college. College isn't supposed to give you job skills. There are other educational avenues far superior for that purpose. Coll
by krige 5y ago
That's entirely not the point of college. College isn't supposed to give you job skills. There are other educational avenues far superior for that purpose. College is supposed to install you with broad and reasonably thorough knowledge base in the general direction you chose as well as shape your perception of the world and the underlying mechanisms.
It wasn't ever supposed to be a required qualification for the modern world emplyoment but here we are.
- chii 5y ago> It wasn't ever supposed to be a required qualification for the modern world emplyoment but somebody who had been through college (in the early days) is a good proxy for being intelligent and capable. It's easy to check for this qualification, rather than an indepth vetting or trial period. But as soon as this is found to be a metric being measured, it ceases to be a good metric.
- raffraffraff 5y agoSurely that's not the case with proper engineering degrees where someone might be expected to spec out steel for a load-bearing structure that cannot fail without loss of life.