Education today is much too focused on mass credentialing, has expanded to ludicrous dimensions. Pre-K, K, 1-12, employment impossible without college degrees, advance degrees taken well into a person’s 30’s. And less is learned than ever before. Information density bottoms out
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In previous centuries one didnt need a BA for an ‘office job,’ as a clerk or secretary, but just a couple of years of college study. Meanwhile many professions, like business and econ, were largely outside of the scope of universities, which focused on law, medicine and theology
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There was a ‘take whats useful for you’ approach, students subscribed to courses à la carte, paying fees to lecturers directly, who taught out of their own homes. The university wasnt administratively monolithic, there wasnt this elaborate admissions ritual. You just enrolled
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The university today is ridiculous, setting policies for students social development, inculcating political views in them, lowering standards to matriculate more and more students to profit from federally subsidized tuitions which many instructors and adjuncts get little share of
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Students are lead through a maze of specialization culminating in an unoriginal dissertation that no one will ever read again once its filed in the library. The unity of knowledge and the integral relation between sciences is neglected in favor of microdisciplinary breadcrumbs
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