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Re: Free College

Post by Svartalf » Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:03 am

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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:47 am

Robots.

Actually, a college degree will be largely a waste of time in terms of traditional productive employment pretty soon. I'm going to recommend my kids become plumbers and/or electricians. It will be quite a while before robots take over that work.
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Re: Free College

Post by Sean Hayden » Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:06 am

Yeah, that's what they're saying. But I think the Silicon Valley guys are largely high on the fumes of their own bullshit. If they weren't talking to each other they'd see how far behind the rest of us are lagging. I'm also betting that our optimism in humanity and the future is misguided. :crumple:

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Re: Free College

Post by Sean Hayden » Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:12 am

PsychoSerenity wrote: The price of education theoretically ought to have been absolutely plummeting over the last couple of decades due to the massive technology improvements for information exchange i.e. the internet. And indeed you can download entire semesters of lectures and reading materials from some of the best universities in the world right to a device in your pocket, basically for free, and if you need to ask questions there are thousands of people at the tips of your fingers waiting to answer them.
That was my thinking too. Yet the costs continue to go up...

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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:12 am

Arguably the most important thing you get from university is a qualification. That's not something you can get from free course materials online.
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Re: Free College

Post by JimC » Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:15 am

Employers like degrees because it shows you jumped through the hoops...
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Re: Free College

Post by laklak » Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:19 pm

Everything should be free, except boats. Boats should always cost lots of money to keep the riff-raff off the water.
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Re: Free College

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:20 pm

Why did they scrap or upgraded polytechnics in the UK? There is such a demand for the practical people they produced. We still have them as do the Germans. They cant get enough students through to satisfy demand.
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Post by cronus » Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:36 pm

Scot Dutchy wrote:Why did they scrap or upgraded polytechnics in the UK? There is such a demand for the practical people they produced. We still have them as do the Germans. They cant get enough students through to satisfy demand.
Renamed them universities so the lecturers can have a pay upgrade, on the backs of the students. Nothing else changed.
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Re: Free College

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:59 pm

Just that they became very expensive and gave out vocational degrees which are useless.
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