22 Aug 2010, 12:54 pm
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22 Aug 2010, 6:12 pm
22 Aug 2010, 9:26 pm
Cyanide wrote:
It baffles me how people still think this... College has to be the most mind-numbing, intellectually stuffy, "think inside the box" place I have ever been subjected to (2nd only to K-12 education 
). You're never encouraged to challenge the status quo, or express your own opinion. Actually, often the case is that you'll be mocked/ridiculed/given a bad grade if you dare go against the glorious, Democrat-voting (yes, a vast majority are Democrat), holier-and-better-than-thou professor.
Education quality is pretty poor. Professors are researchers, not teachers, so most of them don't give a crap about you. I'm an Econ major, and all I've learned about are impractical (and some BS in my opinion) theories that have no bearing on the real world. That's not worth the $15K of debt I've gotten so far.
Here's an article I found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00701.html
The highlights from it:
- Only 31% of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.
- Many college grads are too dumb to even comprehend a table of data (such as a side-by-side of blood pressure and exercise)
- Only 31% of college grads can even comprehend information from short texts
So not only is college terrible for getting you a job, it can't even educate correctly...
). You're never encouraged to challenge the status quo, or express your own opinion. Actually, often the case is that you'll be mocked/ridiculed/given a bad grade if you dare go against the glorious, Democrat-voting (yes, a vast majority are Democrat), holier-and-better-than-thou professor.Education quality is pretty poor. Professors are researchers, not teachers, so most of them don't give a crap about you. I'm an Econ major, and all I've learned about are impractical (and some BS in my opinion) theories that have no bearing on the real world. That's not worth the $15K of debt I've gotten so far.
Here's an article I found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00701.html
The highlights from it:
- Only 31% of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.
- Many college grads are too dumb to even comprehend a table of data (such as a side-by-side of blood pressure and exercise)
- Only 31% of college grads can even comprehend information from short texts
So not only is college terrible for getting you a job, it can't even educate correctly...
Yup, I was right. College really is the greatest financial scam ever created!!
22 Aug 2010, 9:39 pm
Cyanide wrote:
It baffles me how people still think this... College has to be the most mind-numbing, intellectually stuffy, "think inside the box" place I have ever been subjected to (2nd only to K-12 education ). You're never encouraged to challenge the status quo, or express your own opinion. Actually, often the case is that you'll be mocked/ridiculed/given a bad grade if you dare go against the glorious, Democrat-voting (yes, a vast majority are Democrat), holier-and-better-than-thou professor.
Education quality is pretty poor. Professors are researchers, not teachers, so most of them don't give a crap about you. I'm an Econ major, and all I've learned about are impractical (and some BS in my opinion) theories that have no bearing on the real world. That's not worth the $15K of debt I've gotten so far.
Here's an article I found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00701.html
The highlights from it:
- Only 31% of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.
- Many college grads are too dumb to even comprehend a table of data (such as a side-by-side of blood pressure and exercise)
- Only 31% of college grads can even comprehend information from short texts
So not only is college terrible for getting you a job, it can't even educate correctly...
). You're never encouraged to challenge the status quo, or express your own opinion. Actually, often the case is that you'll be mocked/ridiculed/given a bad grade if you dare go against the glorious, Democrat-voting (yes, a vast majority are Democrat), holier-and-better-than-thou professor.Education quality is pretty poor. Professors are researchers, not teachers, so most of them don't give a crap about you. I'm an Econ major, and all I've learned about are impractical (and some BS in my opinion) theories that have no bearing on the real world. That's not worth the $15K of debt I've gotten so far.
Here's an article I found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00701.html
The highlights from it:
- Only 31% of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.
- Many college grads are too dumb to even comprehend a table of data (such as a side-by-side of blood pressure and exercise)
- Only 31% of college grads can even comprehend information from short texts
So not only is college terrible for getting you a job, it can't even educate correctly...
what the heck college did you go to?
i went to a canadian university. maybe we have more open-minded and progressive teachings there? or maybe it matters what facvulty you go through?
it is worth keeping in mind that post-secondary education cannot perform miracles. if you are closed-minded in-the-box thinker,college cannot *make* you change your attitude. and just because some people come out the other end just as stupid as they came in... doesn't mean that the rest of the people didn't benefit. you get out of it whatever you put into it.
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22 Aug 2010, 10:08 pm
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23 Aug 2010, 8:27 am
hyperlexian wrote:
Cyanide wrote:
It baffles me how people still think this... College has to be the most mind-numbing, intellectually stuffy, "think inside the box" place I have ever been subjected to (2nd only to K-12 education ). You're never encouraged to challenge the status quo, or express your own opinion. Actually, often the case is that you'll be mocked/ridiculed/given a bad grade if you dare go against the glorious, Democrat-voting (yes, a vast majority are Democrat), holier-and-better-than-thou professor.
Education quality is pretty poor. Professors are researchers, not teachers, so most of them don't give a crap about you. I'm an Econ major, and all I've learned about are impractical (and some BS in my opinion) theories that have no bearing on the real world. That's not worth the $15K of debt I've gotten so far.
Here's an article I found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00701.html
The highlights from it:
- Only 31% of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.
- Many college grads are too dumb to even comprehend a table of data (such as a side-by-side of blood pressure and exercise)
- Only 31% of college grads can even comprehend information from short texts
So not only is college terrible for getting you a job, it can't even educate correctly...
). You're never encouraged to challenge the status quo, or express your own opinion. Actually, often the case is that you'll be mocked/ridiculed/given a bad grade if you dare go against the glorious, Democrat-voting (yes, a vast majority are Democrat), holier-and-better-than-thou professor.Education quality is pretty poor. Professors are researchers, not teachers, so most of them don't give a crap about you. I'm an Econ major, and all I've learned about are impractical (and some BS in my opinion) theories that have no bearing on the real world. That's not worth the $15K of debt I've gotten so far.
Here's an article I found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00701.html
The highlights from it:
- Only 31% of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.
- Many college grads are too dumb to even comprehend a table of data (such as a side-by-side of blood pressure and exercise)
- Only 31% of college grads can even comprehend information from short texts
So not only is college terrible for getting you a job, it can't even educate correctly...
what the heck college did you go to?
i went to a canadian university. maybe we have more open-minded and progressive teachings there? or maybe it matters what facvulty you go through?
it is worth keeping in mind that post-secondary education cannot perform miracles. if you are closed-minded in-the-box thinker,college cannot *make* you change your attitude. and just because some people come out the other end just as stupid as they came in... doesn't mean that the rest of the people didn't benefit. you get out of it whatever you put into it.
W O R D !
No amount of education can cure stupid or lazy. 99% of life is what you make of it. If your life sucks, well...
23 Aug 2010, 11:32 am
raisedbyignorance wrote:
Yup, I was right. College really is the greatest financial scam ever created!!
Absolutely.
1. Many colleges teach to an agenda. I've see them promote ideas that have no foundation in truth because it's the ideology they subscribe to.
2. Most college degrees are in skills you can easily learn on the job in a fraction of the time. However, they've got enough college graduates in the hiring jobs to push the illusory "need" for a degree to do most any job.
3. This creates a self-perpetuating need for a pointless degree that teaches you very little (in most cases) but without which you won't get into most jobs.
Nothing dumber than the ignorant personnel director who suggests you go back to school to "get another degree." Have a clue about what college education costs? I'm still trying to pay one off. I can't afford a second degree program.
23 Aug 2010, 12:09 pm
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23 Aug 2010, 1:30 pm
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23 Aug 2010, 7:59 pm
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23 Aug 2010, 8:01 pm
hyperlexian wrote:
Cyanide wrote:
It baffles me how people still think this... College has to be the most mind-numbing, intellectually stuffy, "think inside the box" place I have ever been subjected to (2nd only to K-12 education ). You're never encouraged to challenge the status quo, or express your own opinion. Actually, often the case is that you'll be mocked/ridiculed/given a bad grade if you dare go against the glorious, Democrat-voting (yes, a vast majority are Democrat), holier-and-better-than-thou professor.
Education quality is pretty poor. Professors are researchers, not teachers, so most of them don't give a crap about you. I'm an Econ major, and all I've learned about are impractical (and some BS in my opinion) theories that have no bearing on the real world. That's not worth the $15K of debt I've gotten so far.
Here's an article I found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00701.html
The highlights from it:
- Only 31% of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.
- Many college grads are too dumb to even comprehend a table of data (such as a side-by-side of blood pressure and exercise)
- Only 31% of college grads can even comprehend information from short texts
So not only is college terrible for getting you a job, it can't even educate correctly...
). You're never encouraged to challenge the status quo, or express your own opinion. Actually, often the case is that you'll be mocked/ridiculed/given a bad grade if you dare go against the glorious, Democrat-voting (yes, a vast majority are Democrat), holier-and-better-than-thou professor.Education quality is pretty poor. Professors are researchers, not teachers, so most of them don't give a crap about you. I'm an Econ major, and all I've learned about are impractical (and some BS in my opinion) theories that have no bearing on the real world. That's not worth the $15K of debt I've gotten so far.
Here's an article I found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00701.html
The highlights from it:
- Only 31% of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.
- Many college grads are too dumb to even comprehend a table of data (such as a side-by-side of blood pressure and exercise)
- Only 31% of college grads can even comprehend information from short texts
So not only is college terrible for getting you a job, it can't even educate correctly...
what the heck college did you go to?
i went to a canadian university. maybe we have more open-minded and progressive teachings there? or maybe it matters what facvulty you go through?
it is worth keeping in mind that post-secondary education cannot perform miracles. if you are closed-minded in-the-box thinker,college cannot *make* you change your attitude. and just because some people come out the other end just as stupid as they came in... doesn't mean that the rest of the people didn't benefit. you get out of it whatever you put into it.
I heartily agree....btw....I also go to a Canadian University.........just saying.........
23 Aug 2010, 8:19 pm
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