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Sorry, but higher education is not about getting a job. It is for opening new possibilities and for learning to think on your own, it is about acquiring instrum
by atemerev 4y ago
Sorry, but higher education is not about getting a job. It is for opening new possibilities and for learning to think on your own, it is about acquiring instruments for intellectual work. I would suggest making higher education even more disconnected from “preparing to enter the workforce”, because it is not what it is about.
- MR4D 4y ago> higher education is not about getting a job That was probably true in the past, but the GI Bill after WWII definitely changed that.
- overthemoon 4y agoIn theory, that's not what education is for. In practice, that's absolutely what people go to college for.
- lesam 4y ago‘Not what it is about’ according to whom? Most students are in school because they want jobs, not to learn to think. The professors may be interested in that goal but how can they possibly achieve it with a student body that just wants their degree papers and a shot at the upper middle class?