I'm 100% on board w trying to achieve major expense-reduction in colleges, particularly obvious scams like the Columbia MFA referenced My main defense of college is that I think it's incredibly beneficial to spend some amount of 'learning' years in a merit-based setting, &...
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for most people, certainly myself, it was the first time we were in a learning (and also social) environment & felt surrounded by people who were actually 'like' us, & that has been very beneficial for what came in my future I think there's a happy medium to be pursued here
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Taught my computer something important todaypic.twitter.com/BMpWYziXhH
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what're your thoughts on state school? that was my solution to unaffordability (my parents weren't paying for me) - cheap tuition, scholarship -> no debt. Then I went to Wall Street and discovered the extent of the "value" of prestige degrees (networking mostly)...
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before heading to SV where no one seemed to really care, which was refreshing. But then there was also a period of time w/a somewhat unrealistic "everyone will learn to code in a bootcamp" solutionism here.
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Depends on the major.
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Great book in terms of ideas and information but wow is it a dry read.
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the lie i hated the most was college is for figuring out what to do, well then what’s high school for? considering a person most significant discoveries/contributions (usually) occur when they are young we should be trying to shorten time spent in formal ed not lengthen it
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Higher education should remain, but there are far too many schools/programs charging far too high of tuition because it's no longer free-market; it's third-party-payer with gov writing nearly infinite blank checks to many universities who don't ultimately produce good value.
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Consequently, the rate of non-academic bloat in uni budgets and tuition rates have risen disproportionately to economic conditions. Many will truly benefit from good programs, but many are essentially being taken advantage of at an early age via manipulation of fears.
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