This article is sickening (at least the bit before I threw my iPad across the room). College as trade school misses, say, the 1st 90% of the reason for education. I.e. to be an educated member of a society that aims for betterment over time.
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Another purpose of college is to teach us how to think and, more especially, to think critically. Although I studied business, I appreciate the liberal arts for the way they produce people who can read, write, analyze, and speak, skills that are useful everywhere.
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Totally agree great points
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There are a lot of good points there. I had college courses that helped me a lot with my life, but I had more that were utterly useless.
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And so many people suffer crippling debt
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I was lucky enough to get my degree without any debt.
@GunterRae wasn't nearly as lucky.
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I have 4 trade school degrees from 2 great universities, Cornell & Stanford. If only I had ventured beyond those schools' (engineering, biz) prison walls and spent time on the arts quad! I decry the absence of a liberal education.
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I believe he meant plumbing and auto repair trade schools
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Different from bridgebuilding and double entry bookkeeping????
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What hole did this guy crawl out of? As bad an article as I have skimmed in recent memory.
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Tom. I so very rarely disagree with you, but respectfully as the CIO of a failed Liberal Arts school I see much in this article that is dead on. How and Why we Teach is Broken and Higher Ed is heading for an Extinction Level Event. How Do We Fix It?
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Just visited Oxford's Said business school. Dean Peter Tufano is doing great job on diversity (eg lots of African students) and is working overtime to fully integrate b-school into Oxford's mainstream. Doing the lord's work as far as I'm concerned.
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I think votech schools and community colleges deserve 10X (100X?) more praise and attention than we give them. But the 4-year stint in the academy, one hopes, not intended to be votech on steroids.
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The only degree to which I will cut this guy some slack is that he is apparently an economist. I never expect much from that tribe :-)
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A complex matter, naturally, w/ many facets, but in general I've come to largely agree that - at least in certain ways - both college & grad school end up not being worth the cost for many ppl in big picture terms. Life skills, which colleges don't teach, have helped me WAY more!
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Unfortunately it comes down to a matter of - can you actually get a job without a degree? It depends on the industry.
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It does. You're 100% right. It's hard to do justice to the complexity of any topic in a couple of tweets. I'm just speaking from personal experience and seeing the experience of friends paralyzed by debt w/o good enough jobs to comfortably handle that debt.
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Oh for sure, a lot of people who end up with a degree end up starting with entry level jobs versus the position they expected to get. And the low pay rate of the position only leaves them struggling to pay for their loans.
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It’s only going to get worse for everyone with this new tax plan
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Seriously, it's awful....
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