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Universities aren't trade schools. You go there to learn, not to earn a job.

• jimbokun 4y ago
  Maybe in an ideal world.
• hkt 4y ago
  Tell that to the marketing departments of the universities, policymakers, and students..!
• noasaservice 4y ago
  Not by the way they charge. If this is your viewpoint, I can only conclude that you're from an elte family born into money. The rest of us go to uni to get a higher paying job and avoid wage-slavery and/or poverty. And if this is you, ewww https://gfmsouthwest.org/ https://gfmsouthwest.org/ Academics, work and "jesus" have no place together.
• forbiddenvoid 4y ago
  > Universities aren't trade schools. You go there to learn, not to earn a job. This hasn't been true for probably half a century, possibly longer. The number of people who go to university simply for the learning experience is almost certainly vanishingly small. If you look, for example, at the completion rates of non-college courses like you'd find on Udemy, etc. It's <10%. You would also expect audit rates to be much higher for people looking 'just to learn' - auditing classes is typically significantly cheaper than paying full price for the course. People go to school because they are looking for an edge in their long term earning potential (types of jobs, credentials leading to higher salaries, etc).
  • brimble 4y ago
    It hasn't been true since the job (and education) market adjusted to the GI Bill.