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A modern industrialized society can't afford not to put about 50% of the population through an education that gives them at least something like a bachelors deg
by fhars 17y ago
A modern industrialized society can't afford not to put about 50% of the population through an education that gives them at least something like a bachelors degree.
- kaa2102 17y agoAre we trying to make University trustees rich or have a well-educated and civil society? I don't think 4 years of college are required to teach someone to think critically, be rational, and right/speak well.
- gloob 17y agoI don't want my open heart surgery to be performed by a dropout, no matter how passionate and relentlessly resourceful they might be.
- jerf 17y agoThat's a total strawman. It's not even worth expanding on this reply further.
- gloob 17y agoThat's a total strawman. Not really. It's probably not a terribly popular sentiment on a site for web-based hacker startups, but there are plenty of jobs that actually require some sort of meaningful education. Most of the medical system is composed of such jobs, as are large chunks of the legal system. Government bureaucracy (while the benefits of having a degree in such a job may be questionable) commonly requires them, at least in Canada. The government is not a small employer. 50% may well be excessive, but there are a huge number of jobs out there that demand a degree.
- mynameishere 17y agoYes, really. You're responding to something that wasn't said.
- jerf 17y agoWho said "Hey, let's do away with higher education entirely, such that doctors won't have an education?" Total strawman. Thinking there's too many people going to college is not the same as thinking nobody should go to college, and you're not helping anybody with anything by conflating the two.
- fhars 17y agoThat might not work out for the universty trustees. Once the median qualification is a B.A., many academic professions will no longer command a significantly above-average wage level, and an expensive college degree will be a bad investment. Countries with a mostly public funded university system might be at an advantage here if they invest theit tax money wisely.
- jrwoodruff 17y agoyou mean write well, right?
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- gaius 17y agoShow me the economy where 15% - let alone 50% - of jobs require a degree. There are an awful lot of graduates doing work they could just have well have started 3 years earlier and without 5-figures of debt.
- chollida1 17y agoStatements like yours sound nice but you didn't really provide any reason what so ever to back it up. What proof would you use to make your statement stand up?