There’s also nothing in the constitution that says we can’t take firearms and kill the living shit out of the motherfuckers that run our offices when they make statements that go against the wellbeing of the US people, kinda similar to the one made here
In Canada, at least when I was younger, there was a sort of hierarchy of post-secondary institutions, named honestly for their mandates: Technical Institutes, Colleges, Universities, ranging from good, focused, short-term (1-2yr max) trades education, to somewhat white-collar education and business training (2-3 years) without little to no research focus, to full-on graduate/post-graduate tracks (4 yrs undergrad BsC/BEd etc. and beyond) doing the typical research expected of Universities.
If this “University” has truly cut out anything considered arts/humanities or “liberal arts”, then they should be required to drop the facade and just call themselves a tech institute or something.
The US has something similar. WVU is whats called a land-grant university which is supposed to focus on agriculture, science, and engineering as opposed to liberal arts. This opinion piece posted to news could probably do with some additional details.
And all those websites that embedded tweets are now fucked.
And Elon Musk drove another spike into twitter. Websites are going to know not to embed tweets anymore, which will cut out another avenue of traffic to Twitter.
The article says that Democrats should “loudly [dissent] from the view that education is just job training.” I think that’s the attitude that leads people to end up with college debt they can’t repay. Paying tuition in order to learn simply for the sake of learning is an expensive luxury. Unless you’re already rich, education should be primarily about job training.
Liberal arts majors do get jobs, and I don’t know the details about their post-college earnings vs the earnings of people with other degrees. Maybe there’s parity and then there’s no pragmatic reason to cut back on liberal arts education. But I suspect there isn’t parity, in which case maybe it’s best for universities, especially state universities in relatively poor states like West Virginia, to direct their students to better-compensated specialties.
That would help, but I’m not sure I agree it would really change much. Even if college is free, graduates still need to get a job afterwards. Getting a less well-compensated degree has an opportunity cost in addition to the up-front cost.
To be honest, if a person isn’t going to study something that will let him earn a lot of money, I’m not particularly inclined to subsidize his education with taxes. Money is apparently not very important to this person, but it is very important to me…
Exactly. The idea that people shouldn’t study other things like literature or art is just moronic. Yes we need better job training programs, but getting rid of majors that earn less is stupid. That’s the frosting on the “cake” of society.
To be honest, if a person is going to study something that will let him earn a lot of money, I’m not particularly inclined to subsidize his success with taxes. A person who has (e.g.) a developmental disability is apparently not very important to you, but my unprofitable writing career is more important to me than fucking money…
I will not let you declare me a burden for my handicaps including me not being able to go to college, nor will I let you assume that just because I type well it somehow means “he’s just faking it”.
if a person is going to study something that will let him earn a lot of money, I’m not particularly inclined to subsidize his success with taxes
Subsidizing his success with taxes is a good investment. Once he becomes successful, he’ll pay more in taxes than it cost to subsidize him.
A person who has (e.g.) a developmental disability is apparently not very important to you
This person’s college education is probably not a good investment. I’m not making any other claims about him, including about his moral (as opposed to financial) worth as a human being.
I will not let you declare me a burden for my handicaps including me not being able to go to college
If you aren’t able to go to college, I’m not sure how your personal experience is relevant here.
This is the real solution. Businesses hate training new employees and then complain that no new employees know what they’re doing. There is a first mover problem where any company who invests in training can be cherry-picked by a second company who simply raises wages (because they save money on the training budget).
This can create a so called “skills gap”, where you need skills to get a job but no one is willing to give you a chance to practice those skills. Certifications try to fill the gap but do the bare minimum. We need job training schools funded by each industry. Ideally larger companies would also be forced to hire each graduate above a certain skill level.
College is a funny thing. Historically it has not been a job training program (except for a few specialties) and it claims that it’s still not a job training program. However for the last fe decades (since the original GI bill?) ,most students have been going to college so that they can get a good job once they graduate. Thus college ends up being a job training program which is way more expensive and less useful than a job training program not pretending to be something else would be.
If I were in charge of everything, I would look into the option of cutting back on a lot of government subsidies for college students and directing that money to effective job training programs instead.
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