Indeed, I wonder if there’s enough people who do want to get rounded and would pay to do so if it were as much more efficient than a liberal arts college as @lambdaschool is than a stem degree. May be an opportunity to do good there
You take the ones who want a job, I'll take the ones who don't If you give me $200k & 4 years of your life I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to well-round youhttps://twitter.com/Austen/status/1075888130450894849 …
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This is an excellent take! While I decry the gross inefficiency of the U.S. college system and strongly support alternatives, I also don't like
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If you lock someone in a well-curated library with plenty of musical instruments and no TV or procrastinet for four years, they'll probably do okay.
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I'm highly confident that if a person read just one really good book per week, every week, for four years, they'd be a dramatically more useful and interesting person than the typical college grad.
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I’ll take the people who don’t want jobs, charge them $200k & 4 years of their lives and voila, they are now people who want jobs.
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Is it a controversial statement? I pretty much tuned out all my classes and just read a ton on my own. It was basically a 5 year vacation (disclaimer, I was simultaneously studying MatSci, ChemE, and Econ) with a couple minor obligations and a debt-financed patina of legitimacy.
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it's not controversial in this set, no. history majors who got a lot out of their degrees exist (hi!) but usually self select out of these conversations, or never see them
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Parents could just be paying their children 50k / year to demonstrate actual skill growth / personal development / independence. Had a friend whose father offered to buy him an $80k sports car if he could get a solid job without going to college.
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Wow I’ve never thought about it like that before. For the amount of money they really should be able to make some radical improvements
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