Why We Need FEWER Graduates, Not More (Page 2)

[Bezbozhnikustanka]

Creative writing worked out pretty well for J. K. Rowling. I think busing authors deserve grants, or should literature be the preserve of those born into rich families. Business studies is just wrong. They teach you to bust unions, drive down wages and generally screw over the workers. All MBAs should be put up against a wall, blindfold, last cigarette, bop! bop! bop! as Wolfie Smith used to say. All businesses should be run as workers' cooperatives.

[Prof_Don]

U have business degree programs VERY misunderstood.

The corruption and greed is what causes unions to be busted & workers being screwed over

[Bezbozhnikustanka]

@Prof_Don I see people who go to work in suits and ties sitting in offices with heating in winter and air-conditioning in winter getting Six figure galleries, I see people who go to work in overalls using food banks. In ter time their kids get free school meals, during the holidays they go hungry. The rich office workers have taken away the train drivers water coolers to save money, the decedant rich office workers still have their eater coolers. Everyone who goes to work in a suit and tie is overpaid.

[Singapura]

Higher education is really the best time of my life. I feel it made me a better person and happier too. Not everything in life is about money.

[BronzedAdonis]

you're right, a lot of kids nowadays are taking bullshit subjects

[VanessaB]

Yea I wouldn't go to a 4 year college for something like art. Gotta think harder people!

[yulbsari]

I'm not a citizen of the UK, so I might not totally understand. I would hope that higher education would teach people how to think critically.. regardless of the major or degree...

[Bezbozhnikustanka]

Unless you're doing theology, in which case it teaches you to be a deluded whack job. Why do universities teach theology? If you going to teach crap why not go the whole hog and teach alchemy, astrology and skrying?

[AlwaysBelieving]

Nope, at least not at the one I went to (not in the UK BTW). Higher education (college and beyond) teaches people how to be sheepeople

[KaylaJoy]

I agree with your take. Hats off to you

[jacquesvol]

I read a take looking as if some are afraid of people who study.

[JimRSmith]

In that case, your powers of analysis and comprehension are not what they once may have been.

I have more letters after my name than you have *in* your name. My girlfriend has more qualifications than I do.

I'm not remotely "afraid" of people who study. I simply feel that many of them have been sold a pup, when it comes to their potential improved employability after they've graduated.

It's a con for many (and possibly even for most) and only a fool would fail to acknowledge this.

[jacquesvol]

Thanks for proving my point

[JimRSmith]

So you think that having an indoctrinated and embittered educated underclass is a *GOOD* thing?

I think you've proven my point, Jeremy.

[jacquesvol]

@JimRSmith
Various polls have shown that the majority of Trump voters don't have a college degree.
Then it gets clear why conservatives think college degrees are something bad to be shunned.

[zagor]

If we had more education we wouldn't need to import so many engineers/computer geeks from other countries.

[Prof_Don]

Education is good... but in the right areas. For some reason America doesn't produce as many engineers as other nations do

[zagor]

@Prof_Don I was reading an article the other day that I tend to agree with; it said a lot of very smart people who could be engineers or researchers instead go into finance and wind up creating a lot of machinations that make themselves a lot of money but don't do squat in terms of advancing science or society. Unfortunately our system rewards such decisions.

[Bezbozhnikustanka]

The solution to this one's simple, next time the financial market crashes, no bail outs, I'd like to see the pin stripe suit and red braces brigade on the streets asking passers by for spare change, maybe then they'd do something useful like coming up with a unified field theory.

[ArabianPwincess197]

Interesting Take, you make good points

[JohnDoe3000]

Yup, can't really disagree with this.

[BertMacklinFBI]

interesting

[OrdinaryGentleman]

People are far over qualified.

[WalterRadio]

Over qualified to serve coffee.

Not so over qualified for some of the engineering job vacancies I have.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

@WalterRadio Take your opinion and shove it far, very far up your rectum.

[WalterRadio]

I interpret that to mean you are not qualified for the jobs I have available.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

@WalterRadio No, it is a singular instance being applied to generalize the job market today. A fallacy. Your inability to hire workers is on you.

[cupidkisses]

interesting

[IHaveLists]

I agree with this

[User92]

I agree 😊

[meganthemenace]

Because everyone enjoys a nice burger after work.

[CT_CD]

I agree

[KaranSharma55]

nice to read