In our society, higher education has _never_ been more important. Folks take for granted all of the technology that surrounds them, but don't understand it. The iPhone is pretty much magic as far as many folks are concerned, but I can take you down to the radio frequency emissions it makes, talk about signal constellations and protocols, talk about the electrons moving in the traces of the PCBs, etc. This is _thanks to university level education_ and is why I can contribute to building the technologies of tomorrow.
I also don't have a degree, as I dropped out to pursue my career.
Critical reasoning is no longer taught in primary schools. It requires challenging too many deeply held beliefs.
So essentially then (thanks to critical reasoning skills), You didn't get a degree, but learned material that helps you in your career. I'm concluding you weren't hired based on the learned material you talk about above given the lack of a degree (that affirms you've passed the "test and trials" of learning).
I'm not someone who looks down at people who don't have degrees. In fact, for many that have flourished, I admire the shit out of them...and I have lots of friends in that boat. What's become obvious is that an early start into the workforce is critical for building success.
High schools used to have a "practical math" course back when I was in school that I'm sure is gone now. It taught things like balance a checkbook and understanding basic business math. I never learned anything in college that was as relevant as what I learned in that math class I took back in the 90s. It was mandatory for graduation too.
The last 2 years of high school are a waste for those not moving into the university system. Starting in one's junior year, students should be pushed to learn a defined skillset and practice this in a real world environment during the school hours. When one graduates from HS, they should be able to enter the workforce with experience in-field of their choice. Those last two years of HS should be redesigned to promote a HS graduate directly into the workforce if they want to do so.
You don’t think learning rate of change for surface area of an ice cube as it melts would have practical use in everyday life?
Personally, I use the penny melted in coke teachings weekly.
Well, I would say it is a scam if you use it for some hopes and dreams bullshit.
College should be reviewed as your Jobs Training program.
It's a "scam" based on all the unneeded extras loaded into the grad req's. Shit people will never use except at wine parties and bullshitting with other people doing the same back to them. $100K down the drain for these "extras". The internet has made learning these extras a free affair. Yet universities still require another 24 months of enslaving debt to meet the graduation req's.
But there's no established formula for creating some sort of threshold where you have to make $x relative to spending $y and above that identifies legitimate schools and below that identifies a scam uni, so that line of reasoning is actually about value and is simply left to the individual to decide whether or not they found their returns worthwhile, and that's not part of defining a scam. But, I can tell you that *I* would happily give you $100k right now to get back $100k on year five, or even ten, because everything before that and everything after that is gravy.
The scam is in the total usefulness of all learned. less than 50% is ever needed past graduation day, much less retained. Think I've ever used quantitative analysis without having to relearn it 20 years later? Nope...
scam? no clue. i suppose it depends on what you think they’re being dishonest about. they pretty much only commit to telling you a bunch of shit, and that’s pretty much the only thing they do.
it’s rough and tumble out there. dig in. let’s find out how tough you really are.
Solid post is solid and reality filled.
