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Very few people would be happy studying lambda calculus in their basement, most humans like being around other humans. Socialization is why colleges matter, not
by kofejnik 12y ago
Very few people would be happy studying lambda calculus in their basement, most humans like being around other humans. Socialization is why colleges matter, not useless humanities degrees.
- Chevalier 12y agoAnd that's why, in functional countries, socialization is a natural consequence of urban design. You don't need a horrifically expensive excuse to drive to some random location to meet people -- you bump into them naturally as pedestrians and cyclists. University towns are the closest the US gets to Copenhagen, due to absurd subsidies of automobile traffic. But I agree with you about lambda calculus. Let's definitely keep higher education for STEM fields, where rigorous and difficult subjects would benefit from such educations. At the same time, let's be real. Most university students today are wasting their time getting worthless degrees, for no reason but that credential inflation has turned BAs/BSs into high school diplomas.