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> You don't go to college to expand your mind...you go to college to get a good job after you graduate. Or at least you are supposed to. To get a "good job" yo

by strlen 18y ago

> You don't go to college to expand your mind...you go to college to get a good job after you graduate. Or at least you are supposed to. To get a "good job" you get training. That's usually a job you get after college. You go to college (for a Bachelors) to learn how to think rigorously logically and to learn the fundamentals of your field. That's of intrinsic value, irrespective of whether it gets you a job. If you enjoy and have a passion about the field you study, all the better (on the other hand if you chose to study CS to "make a lot of money", you get to miss out on the biggest advantage of a programming career - doing what you enjoy for a living). When an employer gives you a "college hire" position (which is often the only way into some mature companies, unless you're already wildly known and successful), that means they're making an investment in you. Education (or lack thereof) is one way for them to gauge the risk of said investment. As I've also said in earlier posts, if you're worried about outsourcing and/or your job going to entry-level candidates - then you need to pick up domain specific knowledge. Domain specific knowledge builds on these fundamentals (of computer science and mathematics) and can't be looked up on google.

ahoyhere 18y ago
That was the line 10 years ago that I heard, "You go to college to learn how to think logically." Don't you think that if you haven't learned that at all by 18, you won't learn it in the next 4 years surrounded by equally ignorant kids? But, speaking of the topic, how many colleges these days require courses in rhetoric? I sat in on a bunch of college sophmore classes when I was 14 and 15, even wrote some of my friend's English papers for them, on books I had never even read. I wasn't impressed. And this was a "good state university" as someone else mentioned.

by strlen 18y ago

ahoyhere 18y ago

That was the line 10 years ago that I heard, "You go to college to learn how to think logically." Don't you think that if you haven't learned that at all by 18, you won't learn it in the next 4 years surrounded by equally ignorant kids? But, speaking of the topic, how many colleges these days require courses in rhetoric? I sat in on a bunch of college sophmore classes when I was 14 and 15, even wrote some of my friend's English papers for them, on books I had never even read. I wasn't impressed. And this was a "good state university" as someone else mentioned.