Warning: This is a counter-trend post, so some deep beliefs may be questioned. If you keep moving forward, you may not like what you read.
The education industry has successfully installed memes This will not go to college (buy their products) to live in poverty. A common selling point is a piece of fake statistics that demonstrate the correlation between average income and education level. For whatever reason, education takes longer while gaining more and more expensive people at a rate above inflation. This facilitates counter-research, questioning the monetary value of going to college, rather than avoiding sometimes enormous student debt. To alleviate this problem (maybe help the education industry), the government has proposed 529 plans that allow institutions to charge more for their degrees. All in all, this is a good choice for educational institutions, but is that a lot for you? Is this a good deal for society?
If a car company is convinced that half of life is half of success without a car…hey wait!
This post was actually inspired by Brip Blap to write an article titled “Clear and Current Dangers: Humanities.” One of his views is that the government should encourage educational programs to raise wages (e.g. engineering) and dissuade those who often lead to lower-paid degrees (e.g., British Litt and Ancient Egyptian Algebra). Financial aid should also be cut for people who spend more than 4 years of degrees. The result will be government subsidies for students who will put the United States at the forefront of technological innovation rather than at the forefront of publications that deconstruct research in difficult-to-understand sociological journals (?) I found myself agreeing until he said he was sarcastic . I guess this means we don't agree. Therefore, this article.
The ideas presented in the above article In fact, many European governments have promoted it. Because of the low birth rates of wealthy and “old” cultures, human resources (especially science and engineering) are a real problem in Europe. With the higher birth rates in the United States, human resources are not a terrible issue. Europe must make the most of their youth, so they want to guide students to build bridges and computers instead of writing down another study of the 18th-century suicide poet. It also helps to take them out quickly.
I will take a step further.
I think it's wrong to lead to a more productive society in college education. Work hard and intelligence will increase productivity. What happens when we send 70% to college instead of 30% false presumptions that make people more productive and talented. To continue to get the butter of the crop, the smarter part (30%) expanded the education. The other 40% of degrees no longer means a lot. So we waste 4 years sending 100% to high school, 70% to college, instead of sending 30% to master's degree, instead of sending 70% to high school with higher standards, 30% to college with higher standards, and only a few to get a higher education.
Your talent helps you get a degree, not the other way around.
The problem is Higher education won't make people smarter or smarter. Instead, it works
- Separate the children of wealthy parents from the children of poor parents and provide some monetary allowances for extremely intelligent children and many intellectual allowances in poor families, and less intelligent children for wealthy and influential families.
- Get money from students’ parents to fund university athletic centers, dome buildings, and professors who are studying increasingly specialized and often irrelevant disciplines. If not for graduate students who are primarily regarded as TAs rather than for their clever ideas, the program would be more expensive unless the professors pay less, or to build universities like military camps instead of expensive imitations of expensive medieval castles or modern architecture.
- Standardize entry to the employment market. This is their most important function. Demographically, the more young people, the higher the degree you need. There is a negative feedback mechanism here. Long-term education helps reduce growth because it allows people to spend years attending lectures, attending college sports, and often without productivity.
Increased education will not increase productivity. On the contrary, the increase in productivity has led to the country's efforts to provide young people with essentially ineffective time to increase their time.
Modern education reads like an intellectual horror. There are four reasons for doing this. These are: 1)…2)…3)…4)…In the test: List four reasons why modern education is a kind of knowledge. Therefore, anyone with good developed intelligence and short-term memory can obtain a degree.
Unless you need highly professional knowledge (researchers, brain surgeons, accountants,…) A college degree is just a ticket, and you can step into the door of white-collar workers.
I predict that more accurate studies that correct this effect should show The reason for higher wages is to have an office job instead of a degree. This will eliminate two major financial reasons for going to college. This will make the university a place for higher education and thinking. I think it's naive (I used to be highly naive) and hope to expect these qualities in the modern university student community.
I've been there for a few years. Maybe one in ten of my students are actually interested in learning something. The rest is just wanting their degree so they can go out and get a banking job because those with hard science degrees are smarter than average. OK, maybe, but if so, why do they need a degree to prove this?
Smart students care about maximizing their GPA financially. Economics research even takes this idea as a textbook example. I can't think of a better example of the cynicism of modern education.
Most office jobs There is no need to know history, biology, medicine… Just moderate intelligence and effective short-term memory are required. It doesn't take 4 years to figure out who owns and who doesn't.
I recommend returning to the gilding system of the masters and apprentices. This way, people can feel the fruitful members of society earlier without having to experience the owner of high school fly experience. I think this will work. I am positively convinced that if you give me an IQ and digital feeling over 13 years old, I can teach him how to perform my job in 3-5 years. The counter-argument is that the 13-year-old doesn't know if he wants to be a carpenter, a dentist or a research scientist. However, the child about 22 years old doesn't know either. Regardless, it is not difficult to change the apprenticeship system, rather than changing careers today.
Some might argue that this is rigorous training (focusing) rather than education (Broaden your thoughts Passed a series of multiple choice tests), because I will only teach useful content. However, I don't think you can educate someone who is not interested in the subject at all (GPA maximizer). I've forgotten a lot of things I've learned through HS and college because these disciplines don't help me otherwise, rather than contributing to my GPA (mainly lowering). On the other hand, a person who is smart and greedy enough can learn on his own at any time.
With the perfection of printing press, books are so cheap that they no longer need to attend professors’ lectures (the high price of books is the initial intention of the lectures, and the difficulty of conveying new research is the initial reason for the seminar – talk about institutional inertia!). It is also possible to get lectures and courses from places like teaching companies, individual MBAs, self-made scholars, and more. Oh, library!
Of course, this cannot solve the problem of “entry tickets”. A few transactions like programming and certain financial topics focus on certification. On the other hand, college degrees have become so diluted that employers have begun testing potential employees because they can no longer trust the quality of education – many are acknowledged that they have to happen, is the market power right? These companies may outsource this test. This will lead to a new institution that tests whether students learn anything in other institutions. At this point, people can skip education and get certified.
What should I do until then? You can do tried and spend a lot of money (and opportunity cost) to get a degree, or you can start a business and try to get on the foot in other ways. As long as you can get on your feet, you can wear AutoDidact for equal reasons in the case of college graduates.
Disclaimer: I have a PhD in one field and another. I spent my whole life in the education system. This may lead to the conclusion that I am either a hypocrite or I am in pain and not very smart.
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Originally released 2008-02-17 07:55:29.
