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I think it's unlikely that my kids go to college, at least not at the modern price point. I don't know, maybe it'll be their rebellion. "Do I think you should take on the equivalent of a down payment for a million dollar house at 17, on non-dischargeable credit? No son, I do not"
I've said it before; I think maybe the benchmark for a college program should be outperforming a control group that simply reads 1-2 books/week. 15-30 books/semester, but *actually* read them. I think virtually all BS programs would fail to beat this on *any* reasonable criteria
But let's not forget the other apparent reason universities exist: the prolonged, systemic torture and simultaneous neglect of this wretched marked class of human we call "graduate students"
The only two life events I have ever known to fell the soul of an otherwise bright and thriving young scholar are (a) getting a book deal and (b) attempting to complete grad school
AFAICT, the last couple of years of grad school represent the fresh academic's "actually, it was Lord Xenu all along" watershed moment, as it is finally revealed that Science is actually just paper-shuffling to sate an endless hunger for grants that must be chewed into citations
Why do employers like grads? I partially buy the "conscientiousness" explanation, although I'd point out that beyond demonstrating personal stick-to-itiveness, a degree shows that you aren't distracted by sick family, an immediate need for cash, etc. Yes, it's a class signal.
...but I *mostly* think it's Things Being Done The Way Things Are Done. The guy who just got hired to do hiring does hiring the way everyone does it, because then noone can blame him for sticking his neck out if his hires suck. This is how many crappy aspects of the world work.
My maximally cynical read is always fun, so here's mine re why employers like new grads: people in massive debt work like they have massive debt
(Again, IMO the *actual* explanation is just that doing it the way it's always done reduces personal liability for decision-makers. There is some research showing that interview processes filter poorly for ultimate employee quality, making deviation from the status quo esp risky)
This is another super valuable lens for understanding human systems: very often the explicit reasons people do things are *not* precisely the same reasons that those things are as adaptive as they are.https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1227297875719118848?s=21 …
If you *actually* knew how to get your control group to *actually* read the books we’d be done, I agree.
If you do that reading, and do problem sets, and write essays, then yeah it's probably pretty on par. Learning is actually done by the student. The university is just there to help it happen.
Lectures are overrated. They're mostly useful for the students who didn't get it from just reading the books.
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