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> Very little is learned in college that is necessary for general employment. College used to have two value propositions: - enabling very smart people to do
by MrBuddyCasino 5y ago
> Very little is learned in college that is necessary for general employment.
College used to have two value propositions:
- enabling very smart people to do research and nothing else
- identifying / finding reasonably smart people that are needed for important tasks in society, but which might have languished in some village otherwise
Finding smart people has become a non-issue, and research has been corrupted by publish-or-perish. Thus, college today serves four purposes:
- cementing stratification, instead of loosening it: wealthy donors buy their way into prestigious universtities for their offspring
- serve as rite-of-passage: as we abolished all others, this is one thats left to signify a transition to adulthood
- enable a class of parasitic administrators and bureaucrats to extract as much money as possible from future students
- establish a caste of unproductive left-wing ideologues that spread ideas such as critical race theory among the future generation
- dukeyukey 5y agoCan't talk about academia, but why has finding smart people become a 'non-issue'? Without university I almost certainly would've gotten a job in my small rural town rather than moving to London with a lucrative and productive career.
- MrBuddyCasino 5y ago> why has finding smart people become a 'non-issue' The internet. Though somewhat complicated by misguided Civil Rights laws, admittedly. > Without university I almost certainly would've gotten a job in my small rural town rather than moving to London with a lucrative and productive career. If you leave aside the social conventions for a second, could there have been another road to that prestigious job in London other than university? I'm pretty sure the answer is "yes" for at least 80% of all jobs.
- empthought 5y agoAs if Oxford and Cambridge weren’t cementing stratification, enabling parasitic administrators, and establishing a caste of ideologues since the 13th century… Nothing has changed; the elements of your second list have always been present. You just happen to have been told to disagree with the ideologues currently there by your own ideologues.
- MrBuddyCasino 5y agoWe're in full agreement. What is your point? "This idea is bad therefore all ideas are bad"? Some ideas are healthy pro-social enablers of a functioning society, others lead to the death of millions. Christianity is far from perfect, but compared to the competition it has a stellar track record.
- empthought 5y agoThe point is that your thesis is wrong. “College used to…” vs “College today…” No. College used to; college still does.
- MrBuddyCasino 5y agoNice job substantially changing your comment after my reply. Very principled of you.
- sparks1970 5y agoI have increasingly come to believe that part of the purpose of university education in the UK is to transfer money from taxpayers to the private owners of student housing via student loans.
- Jjeffries1983 5y agoHi, I am not sure how to reply to the Broadwell bench thread, but I am randomly the nephew of malcolm. (Fathers brother)