Posted on 01/31/2017 4:49:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I used to think its weakness was the rigidity and lack of choice.
Then I met a Stanford Engineering professor who had started out on the vocational track in Germany. He worked as an aircraft mechanic for a while and decided he wanted to be an Engineer. So he re-took the qual tests and ended up at Göttingen and did his BS/PhD there.
Normally that's not possible - IF you want to go for free. But the system does allow you to pick and choose if you pay for it.
IOW the basic track is state sponsored, but they do have a discretionary track that simply means you pay your own way.
To me it made the whole system make sense.
Yep. We need to stop subsidizing liberals at colleges and universities handing out worthless degrees to people who don’t belong there in the first place.
“To me it made the whole system make sense.”
I’m sure it does, but I prefer our freewheeling system. Or maybe I should say the system as it was when I was in school.
“Normally that’s not possible”
That’s the main weakness, I think: not enough leeway for the late bloomer.
So we’re going to try being white as Wonder bread, returning women to their God-given vocation, clobbering anyone who attacks us and making life very uncomfortable and short for traitors?
Sounds like a plan to me. Germany did very well with that formula.
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