In a shift from a mere couple of years ago, when a majority of Republican-Americans thought that higher education was a good thing, the majority of them now believe the opposite.
A Pew Research Center survey published Monday revealed voters have grown apart in their support of secondary education since the 2016 presidential election season, when a majority of Democratic and Republican Americans agreed the nation’s universities serve as a benefit for the U.S. Whereas 54 percent of Republicans said "colleges and universities had a positive impact on the way things were going in the country" in 2015, the majority now believe the opposite, with 58 percent saying such institutions negatively impact the state of the union.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 11 2017, @02:07PM (6 children)
Kinda, sorta, maybe - but I can't agree very strongly. Colleges really should aim their curriculums toward productive goals. Naming and quoting every poet who ever lived is a very niche thing, and almost no one will ever want to pay you for doing it. So, while Snow White was studying all that poetry, we can hope that she was also developing some salable skills, as well.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 11 2017, @03:31PM
Agreed. But that has nothing to do with education, everything to do with erudition at its worst or passion for poetry at its best.
(and there are a number of places which will actually pay you for being able to judge poetry. Perhaps not in today's America, even they used to exist there some times back)
Umm... I'm very tempted to correct that typo, if you promise not to get upset... Are you sure? Fine then...
You see, the number of places in geisha education in any Japan cities are quite restricted. And they do learn poetry and music and dance and perfect manners and tea ceremony and heaps of other non-productive skills and behaviours (including a Snow White makeup) and some of the more salacious bits and pieces.
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But I digress. You say a school needs to get you prepared for jobs?
Sorry if it comes as a surprise to you after all the time you lived, but no school in this world can offer you enough practical skill at graduation.
Trade school will offer the basics of "how" and "what" and apprenticeship during but mainly after graduation will offer you enough practice to allow you to become a professional trade-person. The trade school will offer you training. it's up to you and your master (or however the person responsible for an apprentice is called nowadays) to distill professionalism.
Colleges and universities are supposed to show you heaps and in a large diversity of "how"and "what" with the sole purpose of exercising the "why", "when" and "where" capabilities of your brain. Any honest school of this kind can't do more than to hope to develop enough capabilities and knowledge to be able to think on your own There's not enough time for them to teach you more.
In my time (and in my country of origin) they use to say university is the place where you learn how to learn.
If you hope more than that you are a fool. If the college promises more than that, they are confidence tricksters. There's not enough time in 3 (college) or 5 or 6 years (uni) to give you more than a head-start at graduation - a kick in the butt with the hope you learned how to land gracefully, roll over in a tumble and get up on your feet ready for the next kick. After some years of practice at the just-graduated-clown level, you may finish to be a true artist in your profession, but not at the end of the school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 11 2017, @07:51PM (1 child)
Typical conboy, doesn't understand what education is really about. You only understand money. I hope you realize someday that your attitude is what will send humanity into the hellhole of wage slavery. "Only learn what we find useful peasant, BAN ALL OTHER LEARNING!"
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday July 12 2017, @02:55AM
And made the world a better place for us than ever before.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by number11 on Tuesday July 11 2017, @10:32PM (2 children)
It used to be that businesses trained their employees. Sometimes that was through apprenticeships, sometimes other ways. They even trained managers. Now businesses want everything handed to them on a silver platter, so that they can reap the rewards without spending the money.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 11 2017, @11:46PM (1 child)
You've hit on something important there. No business can really expect to find people ready to plug into a slot, and be productive from day one. But, the idiots running things seem to expect it.
(Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Wednesday July 12 2017, @09:00PM
You've just hit on one of the many reasons MBAs should be shot out of a cannon into the ravine of their choice.