• Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network
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    To be fair I feel like college is way less about teaching you anything specific and way more about teaching you critical thinking and abstract conceptualization.

    Like I didn’t learn jack shit from my “American economical development in the 14th century” class but I did genuinely get good at telling good sources from bad ones while writing essays, and that IS a skill that has uses in life

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      It’s showing that you can complete a multi-staged project that required years of effort and investment without any immediate return on investment.

      Even if you don’t learn anything in college, the sheer process of going through the motions and getting the degree demonstrates skills that are useful in an employee.

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        Skills that can be shown from working at an entry level job. Or through several other methods.

        That’s not a good reason to require someone to pay tens of thousands of dollars for the opportunity to even apply for a job.

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      To be fair I feel like college is way less about teaching you anything specific and way more about teaching you critical thinking and abstract conceptualization.

      That’s because conservatives want to replace universities with vocational schools. Nothing wrong with those schools, but its just another face of their culture war politics making their way to everyday discussions.

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          Conservatives often want to talk down the value of attending a university (particularly when studying liberal arts and humanities). Like the commenter above me points out much of university is about understanding concepts and developing ideas, and less how to do a particular weld or which pipe to use (vocation). It depends on what you study too, STEM will have more hands on but never as much as someone who went to a technical school to actually do the building of stuff. By convincing people that university is supposed to be vocational it feeds into their talking points about education being woke and unnecessary.

          Kind of ironic coming from a group of lawyers and theologians.

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            It sounds like what they are saying is correct then, so I don’t get how they have fallen for the idea that everything needs to be vocational