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> It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought. "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna sta

> It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought. "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!" - Good will Hunting > It also builds professional networks. Wait so is college about making money or about growing the soul, because you just said it was about growing the soul but now it's about hobnobbing with people's whose only qualification was the ability to pay money to go to college sounds shallow. > If a person is smart enough to receive it, more education is almost always good. If colleges were still about educating I might agree with you but we are a long way from colleges being about educating people. At this points it's simply a social signal.

azinman2 4y ago
Few will spend a huge amount of time self educating, and even fewer can read the books and understand what to extract from it without guidance. That’s the whole point of having a subject matter expert design and teach a curriculum. If you don’t value that, then in your world we should abolish high schools and earlier as well. If you look at societies where people don’t go to school versus where people do, the results are quite different for society. The evidence speaks for itself. > Wait so is college about making money or about growing the soul, because you just said it was about growing the soul but now it's about hobnobbing with people's whose only qualification was the ability to pay money to go to college sounds shallow. There can be multiple benefits simultaneously at different levels. If whatever college you’re attending is only creating a social signal and not meaningfully educating, then that school lose its accreditation.
- mtrower 4y ago
  So wait, if a person fails to benefit from college, it's their own fault for not taking what was "handed to them on a platter" (as you mention in another of your posts" --- but if they fail to self-educate, it's only natural and thus a problem of not going to college?

azinman2 4y ago

Few will spend a huge amount of time self educating, and even fewer can read the books and understand what to extract from it without guidance. That’s the whole point of having a subject matter expert design and teach a curriculum. If you don’t value that, then in your world we should abolish high schools and earlier as well. If you look at societies where people don’t go to school versus where people do, the results are quite different for society. The evidence speaks for itself. > Wait so is college about making money or about growing the soul, because you just said it was about growing the soul but now it's about hobnobbing with people's whose only qualification was the ability to pay money to go to college sounds shallow. There can be multiple benefits simultaneously at different levels. If whatever college you’re attending is only creating a social signal and not meaningfully educating, then that school lose its accreditation.

mtrower 4y ago
So wait, if a person fails to benefit from college, it's their own fault for not taking what was "handed to them on a platter" (as you mention in another of your posts" --- but if they fail to self-educate, it's only natural and thus a problem of not going to college?