American undergraduate exclusivity is certainly a Bad Thing (especially when it only belongs to a small set of rich white guys) and it should be mitigated But striving towards universal college education is a bad norm that perpetuates bad institutions
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chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted Mason 💦 👏 + 😷 + 🏃♂️ ✂️
In recent decades, higher education has corporatized and quietly subverted the pursuit of educational equality The industry has convinced a well-intentioned public to pressure and coerce students to attend college—without soberly assessing if it’s an *actually good decision*https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1227281527257485319 …
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As ‘college access’ has expanded in the past several decades, millions more students have enrolled in baccalaureate programs than ever before, accruing trillions of dollars of personal debt and making only modest gains in their earnings potential
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Now of course, increased earnings potential isn’t the only thing that traditional college provides Though if that’s what you’re looking for, there are almost certainly better options (e.g. technical college, programming boot camps, trade certifications)
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College can also provide things like: - valuable alumni/peer networks - formative learning experiences - a low risk environment for self-experimentation - skills and frameworks for orienting yourself towards a meaningful life But none of these are guaranteed
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chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted chad donkey from shrek 2
I graduated with a medium-strong network, a couple of neat academic experiences, and no idea what I was supposed to do next And I went to an elite university + had probably like a 95th-percentile academic and social experiencehttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1218374130820501504 …
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chad donkey from shrek 2 @choosy_momThrough 16 years of institutional education, I didn’t develop a clear understanding of the dimensions along which I wanted to align my life Along with most of my peers, I strived towards measurable achievement (good grades, standardized test scores, prestigious awards, etc.)Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
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Something surprising is that (anecdotally) I feel like the people who are most frustrated with the education system are often 90+ percentile students. Stockholm syndrome?
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chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted Kim Taylor
i think it has to do with legibility (i.e. a lot of people never learn enough about the system to get frustrated with it)https://twitter.com/kimmytaylor/status/1203519041110822912 …
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Are legibility problems for public goods (like education) costly? Is that a problem that someone (e.g. the state?) should devote resources to solving in an ideal world?
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in many ways i think we need more legibility in workforce opportunities than education, though they’re closely related it would be helpful for folks to have more insight into professional pathways, but this would be meaningless unless hiring practices also changed dramaticallyhttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1228092214279954432 …
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chad donkey from shrek 2 @choosy_momEach year a finite number of credentialed, ambitious young people enter the workforce in America Only a few industries have invested enough resources to effectively court them, and most of them are far more concerned with market share than usefulness https://twitter.com/a_fellow_of/status/1228044971707715586 …0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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