Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)
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HN comment orderI feel like everyone is doing social media marketing - or something equally useless while the world around us is breaking down. In the Bay Area, in San Francisco specifically, voters allocated funds to fix or replace every single Bart escalator. The best hope we have for completing this job is 7 years. Yes you read this correctly 7 years. The problem is we do not have enough licensed escalator mechanics to do the work. Money isn't the problem. Maybe…
Despite the author's 40 years in education he still doesn't get it. Education is an end in itself not a job qualification. You can only grok this if you have lived in a country in which higher education is/was fully funded by the state. As soon as it becomes a cost/benefit exercise the original ideal behind education is lost and subjects such as Philosophy, Literature and History appear to be a waste of time and money. Ironically, when higher education…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-20 | Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)First breakout · Best thread | laurex | 268 | 257 |
| 2021-08-10 | The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone | boa00 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-07-07 | The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone (2018)Latest 20+ point return | turtlegrids | 39 | 72 |