1. Good brief thread on the difference between Canadian and USA higher ed. To which a little more can be said.https://twitter.com/sternbergh/status/1105520589094207494 …
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This is a bit tangential, but having attended an absolutely deranged right-wing evangelical university, I often wonder what it would be like to have had an education in Canada or the US that I wasn't ashamed of.
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we've even made "the right social connections" into wildly popular business/commerce majors now seen as so central that some students won't even take literature or history electives because they fear their parents cutting them off for studying things that "won't get them a job"
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But in #2 you say there's a huge academic divide. And now you say US college choice is *really* about social connections.
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the public university system is absolutely massive, I'd point out. the ivies are 'just', you know, a funnel into the elite echelon
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To the people who participate in that system, that's a feature, not a bug.
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And which one of those, I wonder, will bring a person more financial stability, career opportunities, success and happiness in life?
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The result is that a BA is a BA is a BA. Grads from McGill, UofToronto or Queen's may have a 10% advantage (or like to think they do), but if two people are competing for a job where they went to school doesn't predetermine the outcome as it does in US.
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I suspect that those advantages accrue to a pretty narrow subset of US institutions since, as I'm sure you know, the money in the US system is massively unequally distributed. There's likely a line below which US system advantages are not present.
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One minor caveat to the Canadian system is that the low cost of a degree has caused our job market has been flooded new grads, thus devaluing degrees. Disappointing to kids finish school and unable to stand out in the crowded job market. But at least everyone's mostly equal.
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Shamus Khan's book showing how the education and the social connections go to make one package is really great.
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