in this bubble it's about actually-existing college falling short of an ideal, rather than contempt for scholarship itself
-
-
-
I hold both positions tbh
-
aw, I can't. Learning is a significant component of The Good
-
Totally agree! Just not much of it generated on campuses
-
There's a persuasive argument to be made for research academics as a place for specialists to try wild-ass shit, fail cheaply and quickly, and thus expand the envelope That's not how research actually works, though
-
(Well, not in all the academia I've seen, and not in the industry think-tanks I'm aware of)
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
you will learn
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Getting a PhD, failing out of the job market, and staring down decades of foregone income AUC was somehow less effective at making me contemptuous of college than trying to hire software developers
-
oh my God yeah I can imagine heh can see the same outcome from reading grad school applications though
-
Oh wow yeah Kinda makes you wonder about the people who stick with it, huh
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
I went to college twice, got one degree, but double the contempt
-
My ratio is worse, at 2 out of 5, but I only reached a normal level of contempt
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Please bring back crappy provincial intellects like Aristotle and King Solomon
-
A million engineers, a hundred million social engineers, 3.5 Philosophers
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
I wish ppl need more contempt for it tbh
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
One of my PhD coworkers calls himself a recovering academic
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I'm coming around on College. Things I'm doing in class finally feel applicable to things I'm actually doing in my projects. It took a lot of bullshit to get here though.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
College sucks, bring back apprenticeships
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.