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One interpretation of this: back when only 10% of the US population had a college degree, the elites gave their children's country clubs, aka colleges, a tax ex
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c 3y ago
One interpretation of this: back when only 10% of the US population had a college degree, the elites gave their children's country clubs, aka colleges, a tax exempt status. Now that almost 40% of the US population has a college degree, the policy has a more serious impact than ever before, and feels even less fair than in the past.
- Spivak 3y agoIt's so wild that, presumably, college educated people have this take. It's practically the only schooling that's worth a damn beyond reading writing, arithmetic, and civics. K-12 is so terrible for everything else colleges throw almost all of it out and start from scratch anyways. It's one of the only places where normal people can access experts in most fields without already having connections. Not saying there aren't glaring problems with higher ed but this kind of change doesn't seem like it has any chance of helping the situation. I don't love much of anything about undergrad and that it feels like what high school should have been all along but I don't wanna throw the baby out with it. Because then people aren't even getting a proper HS education anymore.
- joshstrange 3y agoExperts? Maybe for some fields but I didn’t feel like I was talking to experts in my CS classes. They were knowledgeable but most of what they knew was horribly dated based on what the actual business world was using/looking for. It’s a common refrain that you learn more in the first year of working than you did in all your schooling. For myself I feel like I learned more K-12 and on my own than I did in college (which is why I dropped out my Junior year).