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Even though President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program was blocked by the Supreme Court earlier this year, his administration is moving forward with more targeted student debt cancellations allowed under existing programs.
Most things don't need to be a bloated "well rounded education" degree. (I would argue something like political science does - and should include technical education as how many lawmakers know NOTHING about tech they regulate etc.)
Tech/engineering would be better as 2-year basics then apprenticeship/internship/vo-tech type things. IMO. (Sauce: my own engineering education/how little of it is used once specialized let alone all the BS I had to take outside the field.)
My son was doing an Elec Eng degree at UCSD and they MADE him take a full language proficiency year that he couldn't do alongside his credit heavy major so had to take an extra year just to do the stupid language classes which he will NEVER use. Also a bunch of Making of Modern World crap because he was required to be in a subdivision of the university that he did not choose and was more geared toward Liberal Arts/Social Justice focus. Incredibly frustrating. SO GLAD that is over as of this summer. He's totally based and will use his skills for noble goals. So grateful. No jabs, got his religious exemption altho they pushed back... No masks.
The one that sticks out the most for me, this was early 90s btw (so we didn't, at least, have actual Woke Shit), is I had to take an upper-level history class, of the type history majors had to take. The one I ended up in was one about "documents" which was basically a very highfalutin way of a whole semester saying "history is written by the winner." And the professor was a real arrogant fucko too, just ensconced in that world.
Agreed.
As with most things, I think the college discussion should look to history to see why it is what it has become. IIRC, going from memory here, way back colleges were a way for the higher class to refine their knowledge, stand out in education compared to the public who, at best, generally had elementary school education. boarding schools would specialize and refine, with academies and university about the only place you could get specialized knowledge, doctors, mathmaticians, hard sciences, philosophy, etc.
In the more recent past my childhood understanding was yes, there was crap out there, but college was there to do a few things.
Make you more well rounded as a person, exposing you to a plethora of diciplines and help you understand the many facets of life.
Teach you how to learn, more on the intellectual level, but there you go.
ancilliary, how to get a job for your chosen profession. Practicums and internships are (were?) highly encouraged.
Unfortunately, college requirements for jobs has become so prevailent, pretty much everyone is encouraged to go, which created high demands (what we saw developing in the 80's), we have tons of junk colleges with junk degrees everywhere.
Short reply, agree. Trade or 2 year degrees are excellent for most people. it is a shame higher learning has been ravaged by idiots, fools and facists/commies.