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maybe we an stop treating education as a business?

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  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320

    This thread is FS.

    You should all pay me a consultation fee and then I'd tell you how it is.

    I'd love to "pick your brain" on this boo. Consulting without compensation, yes please.
  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320

    How is college not required in THIS economy? @RoadDawg55 @allpurpleallgold?

    Sure, you can make a living if you have hard skills in a field like construction or other technical area. But that's not most people, and it's going to be even more pronounced in the future. How is sending people to school to learn how to write and read difficult material in any way a bad thing?

    It's a bad thing when you're putting nearly everyone that does it in debt. And really the actuall payoff isn't any sort of education, it's that people will hire you.

    What's happened is actually really interesting. Everyone decided that you "have to" go to college. But if everyone does something that thing becomes less valuable. I would argue that college is actually less valuable than ever before except when it comes to getting hired. Which makes it valuable but not in the way it was intended to be.

    At this point you have to go to college so you can get the job that will allow you to pay off the debt you earned from going to college. That's actually insane.
    Yet your lifetime earnings will still probably be higher than someone who doesn't go to college. It's a bad system, but I'm still not seeing how it's bad individually to go to college, despite the group statistic saying that it maybe doesn't doesn't matter.
  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    That's why people should be getting liberal arts degrees.
  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771

    How is college not required in THIS economy? @RoadDawg55 @allpurpleallgold?

    Sure, you can make a living if you have hard skills in a field like construction or other technical area. But that's not most people, and it's going to be even more pronounced in the future. How is sending people to school to learn how to write and read difficult material in any way a bad thing?

    It's a bad thing when you're putting nearly everyone that does it in debt. And really the actuall payoff isn't any sort of education, it's that people will hire you.

    What's happened is actually really interesting. Everyone decided that you "have to" go to college. But if everyone does something that thing becomes less valuable. I would argue that college is actually less valuable than ever before except when it comes to getting hired. Which makes it valuable but not in the way it was intended to be.

    At this point you have to go to college so you can get the job that will allow you to pay off the debt you earned from going to college. That's actually insane.
    Yet your lifetime earnings will still probably be higher than someone who doesn't go to college. It's a bad system, but I'm still not seeing how it's bad individually to go to college, despite the group statistic saying that it maybe doesn't doesn't matter.
    What you're saying is that college is better than Ty.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,778

    This thread is FS.

    You should all pay me a consultation fee and then I'd tell you how it is.

    Maybe we can stop treating law as a bidness?
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,372

    This thread is FS.

    You should all pay me a consultation fee and then I'd tell you how it is.

    I'd love to "pick your brain" on this boo. Consulting without compensation, yes please.
    I said pay me a fee, THEN I'd consult. You need to learn to reed more good. Try a liberal arts college. I here there good at that stuff.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,372
    PurpleJ said:

    This thread is FS.

    You should all pay me a consultation fee and then I'd tell you how it is.

    Maybe we can stop treating law as a bidness?
    maybe we can recroot dtd to bend you over and plow you try my fren.
  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320

    This thread is FS.

    You should all pay me a consultation fee and then I'd tell you how it is.

    I'd love to "pick your brain" on this boo. Consulting without compensation, yes please.
    I said pay me a fee, THEN I'd consult. You need to learn to reed more good. Try a liberal arts college. I here there good at that stuff.
    Whoosh.
  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    This is making me wonder if the 60K I paid for a degree from that school in Guam was legit or not?