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> People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia Even if your system was pure Meritocracy that'd make 16th century Anglos proud, you'd still expe
by oxff 4y ago
> People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia
Even if your system was pure Meritocracy that'd make 16th century Anglos proud, you'd still expect it to eventually come to this (smart people have smart kids, dumb people have dumb kids)
- smeagull 4y agoYou don't just have to be "smart" to pick academia, you have to care about reputation a whole bunch, and you need to be able to not care about money.
- blobbers 4y agoI can't believe this comment hasn't been downvoted into oblivion, but I tend to agree. It's a markov model. Educated people care about educating their children. Uneducated either a) want their kid to be the first to reach higher education (but struggle to do so or b) don't value education. Pretty rare to find a well educated person who places no value on education. Guys like Peter Thiel (educated, but promote non-traditional routes) are outliers on that spectrum, in my experience.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoParents also provide pretty bad advice if they don’t have experience in your path. My parents aren’t really uneducated, but they didn’t go to 4 year schools, and so I was pretty much on my own from high school on in figuring out how to go about getting into university and such. I got lucky, but I always feel like I could have done better with some better advice.
- ethav0 4y agoMillennials who entered college in 2010-2015 -- prior to the deep learning era -- are more subject to placing less value on education. Attention was turned to business, not education.
- TrackerFF 4y agoWhile this is a very inflamed area of discussion, there's a considerable portion of right-wing politicians - even some with degrees from prestigious school - that are becoming more and more hostile against education. It is current day anti-intellectualism. Nothing new, but unfortunately not dead either.
- blobbers 4y agoEducation in the broadest sense isn’t all positive. It comes at a cost of time and money. There are certainly institutions and endeavors that might not have a yield on the time and money spent. For profit colleges capitalizing on student loans are not a good thing for society.
- jiveturkey42 4y agoDownvoted because 16th century Britain was anything but a Meritocracy, and throwing around cliches about demographics and history lowers the value of a discussion
- goodpoint 4y ago> pure Meritocracy that'd make 16th century Anglos proud Huh?! 16th century's UK was a feudal society. > smart people have smart kids, dumb people have dumb kids You are confusing intelligence, effort, education and opportunities.