Higher Education in America – too expensive, takes too much time, has a limited “shelf-life", and consists of a great deal of content that has limited practical value

Whenever a woman has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her during that time will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus

Wait 7 days and it’ll be ok.

But to be well-rounded you need to take classes that have nothing to do with your actual work… right?

Because they teach you how to think.

A lot (most?) people with college degrees aren’t working jobs related to their degree. A well rounded education means you have the analytical ability to do a lot of jobs that you can’t just “train” someone to do in college.

Like I said, a lot of people think you only go to college to learn a “thing”.

I can read just fine. I want to program. I’m not going to be a better programmer because I read a book on gender studies. Computer science teaches programming. Gender studies has ■■■■ to do with my ability to program. That’s why I’m taking the courses I am.

What is your degree in? Do you have a computer science degree? A BS?

Could you be specific? Part of my professional career is working in science. I cannot point to a single liberal arts class that in any way added to my productivity in my job. And to be brutally honest there was a significant portion of my major classes that had little to no benefit to my job.

Do they say that those few months in college was the key to them developing their companies? I highly doubt that.

Those stats regarding people with college degrees is a bit misleading since that puts virtually all the lowest income earners in the one category. What would be a more interesting statistic would be how college graduates compared with those who have either went to technical schools or for those who have created their own business without going to college.

They do. One important difference that I can think of is that college features specialized education.

I did Anthropology and Biology. They’re beginning to figure out that patient compliance is difficult to achieve when you’re a STEM-tard.

I hate the STEMacists. Those people need to be given wedgies on the flagpole or paddled.

They already are. Their stipends are burger king entry level.

Summary of this thread:
“I want to figure out a way to harness ALK-2 receptors and upregulate SMAD 7 phosphorylation to reverse osteoporosis”

“Dumb dumb millennial, I make more money doing HVAC”

Their worst attribute is their philosophy. You can find them trashing on philosophy, calling it “obsolete” (as if that makes sense), and fail to know the boundaries of their fields. I say this as someone whose interest is in physics and conputer science.

I’m not too familiar with that debate.

No they don’t. The brain isn’t even ready to think until 25.

No, they don’t.

This is it. Demean education but benefit from the results.

I just did a presentation on it, actually. But I had to take some literature and language courses a few years back so my education is ruined.

How? In college, students begin taking courses that differ from one another in pursuit of a particular major.

Which doesn’t change the fact that its free for the people going to college.