BTW, I did not downvote you. I do not know who did, but personally I do not downvote.
BTW, I did not downvote you. I do not know who did, but personally I do not downvote.
But this meme that university likely doesn't teach you anything...it's so baffling to me, like, university does. It imply smarts, but not everyone who went to highschool reads and I feel like at least on this website people should get intervention effectiveness and probability etc. Just because university education isn't ideal and people might disagree whether the education people receive there is useful or marketable doesn't change the fact that if you graduate from a serious university or community colleague it is likely you'll have learned self management skills as well as whatever was in your classes.
I've once seen a talk by a German soldier coming back from Afghanistan and he talked about what big difference it maae that in Germany almost everyone trains their ability to focus on someone speaking for 30+ minutes, discussing how he had to learn to triple check his local co-soldiers who hadn't had that luxury actually got the mission briefing. Even if you just learn to binge learn and puke out knowledge in tests that can come in quite handy later on, and the often maligned humanities actually matter if you are interested in a nuanced and continually evolving look of humans onto themselves. So I find this meme that university is worthless quite damaging and not really trustworthy. People can be uncultured swine, idiots and dicks at any educational level, it doesn't necessarily mean they didn't benefit from their education.
The fact that the US puts you heavily into debt to get that education is another question that I'll leave untouched here since dang asked me repeatedly to steer clear of predictable controversies
On the other hand, putting people through university does not necessarily make people more productive (in the economic sense). To make people more productive, you need to match the skills and knowledge imparted with a unfilled demand.
The problem rises when education is co marketed as an opportunity for personal development and career development people don't realize until after which ones they got.
This claim is utterly false, however it adds value to the professor's job and doesn't cost him anything. Some even use it in a "positive" way, to express "work hard, learn thoroughly, you will be an important part of society".
Many graduates think they are entitled by being so, and as it is not the case they judge that others unjustly mistreat or even betray them.