It’s fine to create Lambda School and also respect that the liberal arts are still valuable despite that they don’t work in your model. It’s not a binary. That’s the thing that irks people.
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I have no problem with liberal arts!!!
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It’s just that the entire model of Lambda is at odds with what the liberal arts preach. They’re entirely incompatible. Unless there’s something I’m not considering?
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They aren't incompatible -- they are different markets entirely. This is like saying vocational schools and college aren't compatible. Many do both.
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Find me one person who has completed both trade school and a 4-year degree and maybe I’ll listen to that argument. The literal point is that they are incompatible because they are different markets. Lambda is not a panacea. It’s an improvement on the trade school model.
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I have a school full of them
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I have yet to hear you say that non-technical degrees are a worthwhile pursuit.
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It depends. Some are some aren’t
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I count only 2 mean replies in original thread ?
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I blocked most so you won’t see their replies in the thread
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I do think education is much more than earning potential (God help the society organized around only efficiencies). But I get your point. We need to think better about this, esp. in terms of lifelong crippling debt for low income majors.
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I'm sure you'd agree the answer isn't just "Moar STEM degrees" (we do need more), but also, how do we pay kindergarten teachers better. Civil society isn't going to function well without cops, librarians, preschools, artists, musicians.
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Precisely. The onus should be on the universities to reduce how much they charge for degrees in these fields. One huge way to pay kindergarten teachers better would be to reduce how much of their paycheck goes to paying student loans.
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I just pissed off a friend 10 minutes ago cuz I said 'non-online college is the next blockbuster video' lol
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I guess they (and a whole bunch of others) are going to be surprised when philosophy majors come out near the top in earnings. "[P]hilosophy majors have the fourth-highest median earnings" -https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/philosophers-dont-get-much-respect-but-their-earnings-dont-suck/ …
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Who cares? If you've got the mob against you, you know you are doing the right thing.
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As evidenced by this thread.
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I don’t think that... I think that college has shifted from education to job training. Very expensive training.
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Speaking from a very limited view as a hiring manager, I disagree with your statement significantly. In tech and bio, undergrad degrees do ab extremely poor job of prepping for real life experience. Most valuable exp is colleges are the co-ops folks do (aka-out of classroom).
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You are correct and I misspoke... credentialling is their role in the guise of training. I don’t know correct answer but both training and classical education are important.
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