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[–]madcow-5 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

Honestly, college probably is worth right about 1/15th what it actually costs. Only a handful of majors can’t be learned online, most of which for free. All they’re paying for is the grading system that guarantees they truly learned X amount of the material.

And if all this covid nonsense really is “the new normal”, that killed half of what they were selling which is campus life. Rich kids being lightly supervised as they leave the nest.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

People only really go to college to get a piece of paper that'll let them find a job. It's a way the elite keep us workin-folks down.

[–]Artistic-Mastodon-25 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

People go to college to get enculturated into the Left. At college you learn the shibboleths that mark you as part of the social elite, and the vocabulary of exclusion and privilege. That's worth $200k of debt, right-- the ability to unironically reference Michel Foucault, Albert Camus, Lucille Clifton, B.F. Skinner in casual conversation while referring to everyone you disagree with as "Hitler." For some reason, $200K of education doesnt give you any historical perspective beyond "Nazi= Bad".

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wish we could have intellectuals, but instead we have Liberals.

[–]C3P0 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Now it's $25,000 per semester for online "education." Why can't the school just administer a test of the content for $100? You pass the test, you pass the class.

It's a rhetorical question. We all know why.

[–]madcow-5 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, academia’s a bubble waiting to collapse. Upside is when it does, it hopefully goes back to its roots of being a place for education and gets rid of the administrative fat and the more useless fields of study.

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Everyone knows that college is not about learning, it's about getting the piece of paper that proves one can do their chores. The school wants you to believe education is more than tests, but then at the end, it's just another test anyways. SAT, ACT, GRE, whatever.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kids go to college often to avoid having to go to work. Or to War

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People used to go to college to get a higher education to raise their employment ceiling. It's not a bad thing to do. I think people starting using it as a guarantee to start off with a big salary without respect to the field of employment based on bad advice from parents and high school guidance counselors. Maybe the expansion of the student loan program exacerbated things.