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In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
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It’s going to be a fun world without arts and philosophy…
And bravo to 18yo kids that have all that planned. Not sur life is set on rails and all for most of us. Sure didn’t feel that way for me. Or about everyone around me.
Comparing a rigorous Philosophy degree to an internet argument is something said only by the uneducated.
Philosophy is the spearhead of science, most scientific breakthroughs begin first with philosophy.
The sad thing is that college is and has been viewed for at least my entire life as just a more elaborate version of a vo-tech school.
Which I kind of understand - I didn't want to come out of uni with no path forward either, so I went for CS. Believe me, I understand the game.
However - it's a real shame that we don't treat K-12 or university as something to really broaden the mind, but only as a way to sort the population into various ways to earn money. Essentially ONLY used as a job training program.
Instead of treating education as something that should be about getting a liberal education in every sense of that word with the aim of making as many people as possible autodidacts so they could not only think for themselves, but they could teach themselves nearly anything they care to learn, K-12 + higher education is expected to be about prep for a job. This kind of education essentially makes "do your own research" little more than a punchline aimed at morons who are doing no such thing.
That is so sad and so us-american... You're not a civilized society anymore but existing only to please your capitalist owners. To them, you don't need art, philosophy or anything else that isn't directly applicable to capitalist interests.
The poor should not waste themselves on "useless" knowledge. You should only waste yourself in money-making capitalist mines like boring offices. At least those with enough cash can still enjoy the finer arts. Or any of the financially less advantageous degrees.