Posted on 03/13/2023 7:47:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: The world needs ditchdiggers, too.
Aren’t there machines and robots to do this now?
Yes, academia has been fully integrated into the system. A full ‘partner’ and valued team member.
And therein lies the biggest challenge facing society. What to do with all of those “idle hands”?
RE: I see no bad news here.
Except for taxpayers being on the hook again for nearly a trillion dollars if Joe Biden’s Loan Forgiveness Program ever gets through.
RE: What to do with all of those “idle hands”?
Learn a useful trade. You don’t need college for that.
And for those who aren't motivated to do that? And you know that most people simply won't have that kind of ambition.
True, but they can go on to get classy jobs in cool places like Silicon Valley Banks...
Bingo. Colleges and universities have turned into expensive joints for student loan deadbeats to “hang out” and wait for spring break. While they are there, they become “activists” for some stupid idiot cause for extra credit to receive a participation diploma.
LOL. A high paying DEI job that requires zero knowledge of the financial industry or its products.
Who says the liberals don’t create jobs?
Not only can someone earn a good living in the trades, they may also be able to form a small business for that work.
I attended college in the early to mid 90s... back then those in college fell into two broad groups... A set of folks who actually were there to learn, often paying for it themselves, or through academic scholarships or their parents money etc... and those that were there just because college was what you did next after high school. The latter group, was almost ALWAYS on mommy and daddy’d dime... were there to party, etc, and honestly dumbed down the entire institution and were at best a distraction for those actually there to learn.
Every fall the new freshmen would show up, and it was pretty clear quickly which of these two large groups someone fit into. A large number of the latter group would fritter their semester away, and then toward the end when Mommy and Daddy got their kids first semester grades would try to hunker down... some did so successfully, others flunked or dropped out leaving mommy and daddy with a big boatload of cash spent with nothing to show for it.
That was nearly 30 years ago now... There were always left wing nutters on campus, pushing ever commie pinko nonsense.. and share of professors as well. Humanities were full of these folks... while the actual sciences tended to be far more real world focused.
Today, I wouldn’t even recognize my college if I were to visit. Other than the fact the kids are the same age.. the pursuit of academics, seems to be all but an afterthought in most COLLEGE GRADUATES I interact with. Their emotional maturity is closer to 12 than 22, no not all, but far far more of them, than I would expect.
We were all young and foolish at one point, I’m not talking about that, I’m talking just inability to function at anything approaching a functional adult level.
NO its not all, but the folks who would have FLUSHED OUT, without question 30 years ago, somehow are now getting degrees...
I never went on a spring break. Couldn’t afford it. I could barely manage to put gas into my old clunker to commute back and forth.
If the degree is in a STEM discipline, good. Otherwise, worthless.
“Their emotional maturity is closer to 12 than 22...I’m talking just inability to function at anything approaching a functional adult level.”
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That accurately describes many of today’s young college grads. Its alarming to see how little they know about the fundamentally important things that are necessary to function in society.
By contrast, back in the day the vast majority of HS grads were fairly well prepared to function in the real world. And they were proud of it.
If it weren’t for MBA’s in marketing, we wouldn’t have Lemon flavored Oreo’s
I never did either. I always had to work.
2-year tech degree in autobody repair is plenty. Banks may crumble and that cushy “personal banker” job may vanish...but there will always be car wrecks.
Yuck. I grabbed some Oreos without looking closely and got some disgusting birthday cake versions.
Going away to College has largely become going away from home to a new high school where you can drink beer.
not really a problem, plenty of STEM applicants available in sweat-shop style coding/engineering companies from overseas to fill the demand, and are always on sale!
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