This is something very true that I haven't really seen mentioned before. A serious portion of people studying at university have no idea where their degree will take them in the future, or if it's at all aligned with their desired career path. So why do they go?https://twitter.com/antonjw/status/1101630871411539968 …
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In a course I’m in at university on Parent-Child Relationships, one of the main benefits of higher education is described as an “identity moratorium”: taking a degree = 4 year buffer where you get to personally develop more w/o firmly committing to big chunks or your self-concept
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It has a word!! Thank you for this. Makes me wonder why we aren't able to have a more solid identity earlier. How did people fare before uni was such a big thing?
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(My senior "big paper" for the high school college-prep English course was called "Compulsory Higher Education: The National Potential Suppressor" and it covered explosive cost increase, structural mediocrity, and pointlessness in the face of alternatives + origins of compulsion)
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Yes. I think you put it well. They want the safety of the crowd, and of having their path mapped out for them. They don't want to discover their own. Horses again: Put one out in a field by itself, it'll get agitated and uneasy very quickly. It'll 'shout' as if in agony.
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So by the time of university age, most young people are already thoroughly conditioned. They don't need to know their what & why... there's a job (of some sort) available for them when they leave, where they'll continue to be directed & judged and believe it's entirely normal.
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