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Originally Posted by Culverin
I disagree once again. A higher education isn't meaningless. It maybe meaningless if you are only looking at it from a narrow perspective that a higher education is your ticket to a better paying job than the average person. As you put it, to "differentiate you enough to be the higher earner". However, if you look at society as a whole, higher education improves human rights, womens rights and eliminates bigotry that stems from racial hate or misplaced religious zealotry.
I really hate to call you out on this, but your view on higher education is very selfish and at no point intersects with the greater good of your fellow man.
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Oh! Do not get me wrong-I am all for the sharing of knowledge and learning for the love of knowledge, and do not advocate shutting down the liberal arts wings because you cannot sell it on wall street.
I am saying, that pumping people into these programs for the sake of a degree is not going to work.
Maybe I should not have said meaningless. Meaningless in the corporate world, maybe.
There was a time when there were far less 4 year degree holding people in your average batch of resumes, and even a liberal arts degree would put you ahead of people without a degree, not for that which you learned, but the fact that you are capable of learning it.
Not hating on the fine arts crowd-but those skills apply more to academia than your average mid management level job that is the bread and butter of the working world.