Chronicle of Higher Education: Higher Education Is Drowning in BS and And it’s mortally corrosive to society. (Harkin, financial)
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I look at the majors on a university website and a majority of the majors are basically full of material that can be found on-line in a very short of period of time.
About 90% of courses seem to be offered just so people with unneeded degrees they can't do anything with have a job. A majority of their students sit in classes and lecture halls for about 1,000 hours, take around 100 exams and pay $60,000 plus high interest rates for the priviledge while working very little for an employer and barely paying any tax.
On UCLA website, dozens and dozens of majors that people can learn on their own for free on-line. I would say less than 10% of the courses or majors need a person lecturing or have labs involved where people need to be lectured and have a instructor physically present.
Universities these days seem to teach conformist indoctrination for the most part for every 1 Architectural Studies, engineering or nursing class there seems to be about 10 classes teaching nonsense that can be learned on-line with-in an hour if the knowledge is needed.
One of the biggest benefits of higher education is simply learning how to learn. It grants you the mental skills and self-discipline to pick up advanced topics that you can then study online, or at a symposium. Not everybody needs that type of training though; a few can master it on their own.
One of the biggest benefits of higher education is simply learning how to learn. It grants you the mental skills and self-discipline to pick up advanced topics that you can then study online, or at a symposium. Not everybody needs that type of training though; a few can master it on their own.
There is 13 years from taxpayer funded education to learn how to learn mental skills and self-discipline. It all just seems like a very expensive, time consuming venture to enrich mental skills.
It seems like a very expensive way to be granted mental skills or self-discipline.
While people need a classroom setting for things like engineering, health-care related and construction related fields, a majority of other things are just for curious sake.
There are some things that are better taught in a university setting, but seems like 90% of courses and majors are fluff and needless. They can be learned online in a fraction of the time for free.
I would say 50 years ago most people studied subjects that were valuable, now I think it is an expensive networking scheme full of liberal indoctrination.
Most people seem to be cramming away for knowledge that will be forgotten or they could have just looked it up online.
There is 13 years from taxpayer funded education to learn how to learn mental skills and self-discipline. It all just seems like a very expensive, time consuming venture to enrich mental skills.
It seems like a very expensive way to be granted mental skills or self-discipline.
While people need a classroom setting for things like engineering, health-care related and construction related fields, a majority of other things are just for curious sake.
There are some things that are better taught in a university setting, but seems like 90% of courses and majors are fluff and needless. They can be learned online in a fraction of the time for free.
I would say 50 years ago most people studied subjects that were valuable, now I think it is an expensive networking scheme full of liberal indoctrination.
Most people seem to be cramming away for knowledge that will be forgotten or they could have just looked it up online.
Higher education has already peaked in the US. Current student cohorts are smaller due to a declining birthrate, foreign born student numbers are down, and competition from online resources is only getting started.
The universities see the writing on the wall and are just getting while the getting is good. The family house is mortgaged to the hilt, and the grandchildren are selling off the silver to line their pockets. Professors and administrators largely don't care about institutional reputation anymore because they know the ship is going down.
Higher education has already peaked in the US. Current student cohorts are smaller due to a declining birthrate, foreign born student numbers are down, and competition from online resources is only getting started.
The universities see the writing on the wall and are just getting while the getting is good. The family house is mortgaged to the hilt, and the grandchildren are selling off the silver to line their pockets. Professors and administrators largely don't care about institutional reputation anymore because they know the ship is going down.
Let’s hope so. These days, higher education is little more than a front for a massive loan sharking operation.
One of the biggest benefits of higher education is simply learning how to learn. It grants you the mental skills and self-discipline to pick up advanced topics that you can then study online, or at a symposium. Not everybody needs that type of training though; a few can master it on their own.
Which is why republicans hate universities.
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