The third thing is that it was the most valuable class I ever took, because it saved me from graduate school.
I honestly wish I’d had that class. I think my physical chemistry classes were fundamentally similar, except that I failed them by continuing to grad school.
It seems obvious to me that society needs engineers and surgeons and scientists, and that those people actually do need a lot of education in the time-consuming, systematic-building-of-skills sense. It also seems obvious that society needs only 5% (wild guess) of the population to have that sort of education. Our society seems to have decided that it would be unconscionable to tell a child, however meatheaded, that they will never join that 5%. Instead we prefer to force all children to continue on that path until the age of 18, then encourage them to borrow to go further. Then most of them discover that they were never going to join the 5% and old people wonder why they’re so angry.
Hmmm… in this model, humanities majors might realize the truth earlier, because even 18-year olds can’t avoid the realization that an English degree isn’t a ticket to wealth. They might get angry when they’re still in college. Seems plausible.
The third thing is that it was the most valuable class I ever took, because it saved me from graduate school.
I honestly wish I’d had that class. I think my physical chemistry classes were fundamentally similar, except that I failed them by continuing to grad school.
It seems obvious to me that society needs engineers and surgeons and scientists, and that those people actually do need a lot of education in the time-consuming, systematic-building-of-skills sense. It also seems obvious that society needs only 5% (wild guess) of the population to have that sort of education. Our society seems to have decided that it would be unconscionable to tell a child, however meatheaded, that they will never join that 5%. Instead we prefer to force all children to continue on that path until the age of 18, then encourage them to borrow to go further. Then most of them discover that they were never going to join the 5% and old people wonder why they’re so angry.
Hmmm… in this model, humanities majors might realize the truth earlier, because even 18-year olds can’t avoid the realization that an English degree isn’t a ticket to wealth. They might get angry when they’re still in college. Seems plausible.