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Your college is ripping you off

reason10

Governor
No.


No.

It teaches them about art. Which is useless unless you have an interest or a career in art.

I have neither and wouldn't need an art teacher attempting to educate me on creativity.
It's not just the useless irrelevant classes. It's the sheer cost of a university, and that's after they get BILLIONS in government subsidies. An Ivy League school will vomit out an unemployable Lesbian Dance Theory grad for over two hundred grand, while a community college graduates a $100,000 a year welder for a fraction of that cost.

Yes, Charlie Kirk is entirely correct. Colleges are ripping people off.
 

PhilFish

Administrator
Staff member
Basketweaving isn't a requirement. An Arts credit generally is. And there is plenty of academic value in an arts program. And employers see the value in students who have taken an arts class and passed that along to educators.

Yes. But again...it's in the choices
 

reason10

Governor
Students are free to take whatever classes they want to. Universities issue degrees based on fulfilling their requirements. Requirements for degrees are largely based on what universities prepare their students for the workforce.
Oh, really?
The Occupy Wall Street movement was formed primarily by disgruntled college grads who were paying huge student loan payments and bitching because they couldn't make six figures with a Lesbian Dance Theory degree that cost them six figures.
 
Oh, really?
The Occupy Wall Street movement was formed primarily by disgruntled college grads who were paying huge student loan payments and bitching because they couldn't make six figures with a Lesbian Dance Theory degree that cost them six figures.
There is no degree in lesbian dance theory anywhere but inside your tiny little brain.
 

reason10

Governor
That was the dumbest video of all time.
Nobody gets who they are competing against. Sure, you can pretend that you don't need an education to compete, but your competitors are educating themselves far beyond 3 years.
There are idiots with Masters Degrees in Lesbian Dance Theory who can't make their student loan payments and can't get a job, while welders from two years at a community college are making six figures and pretty much have paid off their student loans.
 
There are idiots with Masters Degrees in Lesbian Dance Theory who can't make their student loan payments and can't get a job, while welders from two years at a community college are making six figures and pretty much have paid off their student loans.
The unemployment rate for people with a college degree in 2.1% The unemployment rate for those with no college education 3.9%.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/unemployment-rate-2-1-percent-for-college-grads-3-9-percent-for-high-school-grads-in-august-2018.htm?view_full
 

reason10

Governor
The unemployment rate for people with a college degree in 2.1% The unemployment rate for those with no college education 3.9%.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/unemployment-rate-2-1-percent-for-college-grads-3-9-percent-for-high-school-grads-in-august-2018.htm?view_full
Uh, DUUUUUHHHH. Doctors get jobs. High school grads working at McDonalds, uh...
Of course, there are idiots with Masters in Sociology who are flipping burgers while air conditioning techs fresh out of community college are knocking down six figures.

Bottom line, college is NO guarantee of employment or success. Bill Gates dropped out of college and he's very successful.
 

reason10

Governor
You just posted a video of people dancing. There is no indication it is part of a class or a degree.
You obviously don't know how to [Unwelcome language removed] READ.

The caption:
Lesbian Dance Theory Exam at Washington Square Park
https://imgur.com/gallery/oFGGu


A couple of "Bullshit" classes/degrees that actually exist
Underwater Basket Weaving is apparently a real thing, and it's offered at Reed College in Portland, the University of Arizona, and Rutgers University sauce: http://www.collegedegrees.com/blog/2011/08/26/10-strangest-college-courses-ever-offered/

Lesbian Dance Theory is apparently a "thing" too, sauce: https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/dance-studies-gay-and-lesbian-studies-and-queer-theory
 
Uh, DUUUUUHHHH. Doctors get jobs. High school grads working at McDonalds, uh...
Of course, there are idiots with Masters in Sociology who are flipping burgers while air conditioning techs fresh out of community college are knocking down six figures.

Bottom line, college is NO guarantee of employment or success. Bill Gates dropped out of college and he's very successful.
Yes, going to college is a risk.
but we all know no risk, no reward.
 

reason10

Governor
You obviously don't know how to [Unwelcome language removed] READ.

The caption:
Lesbian Dance Theory Exam at Washington Square Park
https://imgur.com/gallery/oFGGu


A couple of "Bullshit" classes/degrees that actually exist
Underwater Basket Weaving is apparently a real thing, and it's offered at Reed College in Portland, the University of Arizona, and Rutgers University sauce: http://www.collegedegrees.com/blog/2011/08/26/10-strangest-college-courses-ever-offered/

Lesbian Dance Theory is apparently a "thing" too, sauce: https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/dance-studies-gay-and-lesbian-studies-and-queer-theory

WHYYYY ARE LIBERALS SO EFFING STUPID?
 
There are idiots with Masters Degrees in Lesbian Dance Theory who can't make their student loan payments and can't get a job, while welders from two years at a community college are making six figures and pretty much have paid off their student loans.
An Insult to Intelligence

Tuition means that college is only about buying a job, primarily for those who do it with Daddy's Money. Replace this indentured servitude with recruitment by corporations giving highly paid professional training, which will, by realistic economic theory, get the best minds and get them to study. Any corporation that would do that now would be the equivalent of an NBA team getting the whole first round of draft picks.

Speaking of sports, how many Blue Chip high-school athletes would the sports colleges get if all they offered was free tuition? The jock wouldn't be attracted by having to put up with the typical student's miserable, childish, and empty lifestyle.
 
An Insult to Intelligence

Tuition means that college is only about buying a job, primarily for those who do it with Daddy's Money. Replace this indentured servitude with recruitment by corporations giving highly paid professional training, which will, by realistic economic theory, get the best minds and get them to study. Any corporation that would do that now would be the equivalent of an NBA team getting the whole first round of draft picks.

Speaking of sports, how many Blue Chip high-school athletes would the sports colleges get if all they offered was free tuition? The jock wouldn't be attracted by having to put up with the typical student's miserable, childish, and empty lifestyle.
How much money have you lost waiting for someone to pay for your education?
 
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