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I know what I hate the most. It is that while the author does start out with a good topic - "why don't people do intellectual curiosity and lifelong learning?"
by Falkon1313 4y ago
I know what I hate the most. It is that while the author does start out with a good topic - "why don't people do intellectual curiosity and lifelong learning?" - they then somehow manage to promptly come to the very worst possible conclusion. They even cite the cause of the problem as a potential solution!
>a free market for universities–and more generally for education—where the consumers decide the value of a service [...] where students don’t pay upfront for their education, but afterward and only if they get a high paying job.
It's that attitude right there that is the very root of the problem! There are tons of fascinating topics people could study and would enjoy learning, but since everyone's so laser focused on that paycheck and getting a high paying job, they don't. Anything that doesn't serve that purpose gets cut. As if education is pointless, only job training matters. And only those profits from "skin in the game," never mind any actual education, learning, or intellectual curiosity.
It's really so incredibly backwards that I have a strong suspicion it might have been intended as a troll post.