Date: 2007-10-23 05:13 pm (UTC)
I think the main problem with the "college not being about learning" thing is that the reasons people go to college have shifted.

Yes. YES. Exactly. So you've got the old professors who were basically like I never want to work a day in my life, I want to stay at university versus a bunch of young folks who want to go out into industry, sometimes even with a PhD (SHOCK! GASP!).

And there's a conflict between people who go to college to get a degree in something they LIKE (aka, if I had actually majored in music, or in photography) versus people who are getting a degree to get a job (aka, what I actually did).

Higher education is so confused right now. And alumni just keep pumping in money, so there's no reason to be concerned.

I just wonder... I mean, EVERYONE gets a degree nowadays to get a job. What happens when we all have degrees? Will we have garbagemen with BSs? Will we have McDonalds workers with MSes? There's something wrong with the system, in that case, if you base jobs on degrees.

And I could probably, honestly, count the things I learned in college that apply to my job on both hands.

Yeah, I said it. How many times have I used thermodynamic equations? Not many. (The "life lessons" I use every day. The "lofty knowledge" -- not so much.)

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