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Originally Posted by dyna mo
youre missing big points pf a degree, it teaches how to think, how to achieve long-term goals and how to work with others.
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Not true.
Colleges used to teach some of that, and most of all what it showed was you were capable of taking on a difficult, voluntary, four year goal and completing it. That didn't mean you were smarter, but it was a very good way to sort reliable twenty year olds from less reliable ones entering the workforce.
It remains true at 'real schools' today. If you graduate from an Ivy you get that same kind of education... But there are hundreds of diploma factories that teach very little and see students as a paycheck. Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, is unable to get accepted to college today if they are willing to pay the bill. As a result the difference between college grads and non-college grads is nonexistent qualitatively, which devalues getting a degree even more.
They don't teach peopke how to reason anymore. If they did, most people would opt out and avoid 200K in debt for a degree with no hope of a positive ROI
