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No business on earth would hire a criminal baby. Should America?

 

I'm honestly not sure what your point is.

Do schools and universities waste state money?

Do schools and universities waste donor money?

Of course they do.

 

It’s also a bit much to conflate what happens at well-heeed private schools or Top 25 jock factories with what happens at Double Directional State U down in Division II.

 

Agreed ... the smell of the composition fallacy has been pretty overpowering with regards to that line of argument.

 

What we think of as "college" is not necessary for most careers. Abraham Lincoln didn't "need" it, and he was Abraham Lincoln.

The words "college" and "university" are leveraged for the way they sound, of course, and the ability to make money off of what it sounds like. Some stuff that's called "college" is really just an expensive job training program. Hospitals so inclined to build the infrastucture could pay to train a person everything they need to know to be a surgeon, and probably do so on a faster manner than colleges do it; medicine, after all, doesn't need the magic of the dorm experience in order to be practiced well. Indeed some hospitals have these "colleges" - again, job training programs - to develop people for other roles in a hospital.

 

GQP fukcheads promoting Fat Orange Hitler as Speaker. The stochastic terrorist In chief would simply goad his followers to off Biden and Harris. Voila, he’s in office. In my opinion, we are one Reichstag fire away from Hitler.

 

Abraham Lincoln didn't need college to become a lawyer ... in the mid-1800s.

Fucking brain genius at work here, folks.

 

I've been writing about it for pages but here's another: In our postmodern society, we've done a pretty damn good job of tearing down just about institution we could for this reason or that - some worthy, some not - but one institution has grown, exponentially, in scope and money spent. Higher ed. And ain't that somethin?

The reckoning is coming to academia. And yeah, it's coming from the right. And you bet, the right will overdo it and take more than a pound of flesh. And yeah, journalists - who go work for universities as flak when they want to make twice what they make in a more important job as local reporters - will faint over the development.

 

Learning medicine, whether at a traditional medical school or a teaching hospital, requires tremendous discipline and independent study habits that the college experience can help one hone and perfect.

And, most medical students spend more time learning in hospitals than in the classroom anyway.

 

College is basically meant to weed out the students who don't have the discipline and study habits to succeed . . . before the hospital setting weeds even more out.

 

Did I need a four-year degree to become a journalist? Of course not. But as my high school principal said, it's a litmus test. That should change, but society needs to come around on that first and it hasn't.

In terms of not needing an on-campus experience to get a book education, yes. To get a life education? For me it was necessary. I spent two years at community college and I'm glad I did. I jumped onto a big campus as a junior and I still was way in over my head. But that's the beauty of college. You sink or swim and as long as you don't kill or maim someone, you can drown for a bit but manage to eventually get back to the surface. It's a risk-free environment to make mistakes that if you made as an adult, you'd be screwed.

I'd argue "poor" kids might need that experience a little more, because they are not getting exposed to as many things when the family's main goal is finding a meal for the night, and dad doesn't have time to go to the library and cajole the kids into reading Very Big, Important Books, or the school lacks XXX club where kids can learn social skills and some useless knowledge along the way.

It's almost 11 and I still haven't had any caffeine, so these thoughts are all over the place.

 

Abraham Lincoln never took on a car payment and he was still able to become president.

Makes you think.