TownieDeac
words are futile devices
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Heh, and biff and jh stick with their demeaning of humanities and social science degrees. Is the function of higher ed just to gatekeep the good jobs? To produce a very expensive piece of paper, a diploma as a ticket to the next social strata? The function of education should be to teach students things, to engage their curiosity, and to produce a generation of thinking people. Ask any MBA making mid six figures what they learned in business school that they couldn't have learned on the job and with any undergraduate degree as the foundation. Surely for those positions that do require actual job certification (doctors, lawyers, plumbers) we can find a path that makes sense to certifying them that doesn't put the government in the place of needing to subsidize their lives for decades in this free market system. I can think of a few ways.
In a generation we went from affordable college and affordable housing to unaffordable college and unaffordable housing, all while the cost of goods and medical care have skyrocketed. I'm not sure addressing this on the demand side was the right way around either, but for those it materially helps in the day to day, I think we should all be thankful people in positions to help are trying things. Lord knows we bend over backwards to help those in absolutely no need whatsoever.
In a generation we went from affordable college and affordable housing to unaffordable college and unaffordable housing, all while the cost of goods and medical care have skyrocketed. I'm not sure addressing this on the demand side was the right way around either, but for those it materially helps in the day to day, I think we should all be thankful people in positions to help are trying things. Lord knows we bend over backwards to help those in absolutely no need whatsoever.