Stupid ass private education bullshit
It was never about paying to get smarter. The original purpose of universities/higher education is long gone. It is now about paying to be accepted by high society and indoctrinating you. As Rockefeller said, I want a nation of workers, not thinkers.
It only costs money to get the little piece of paper that says you did the thing and are therefore smarter. 🙃
It doesn’t.
It takes time and effort to gain more knowledge. It has never been cheaper or more accessible to acquire knowledge than it is today.
To increase your intelligence, is another matter all together.
I would also add that damn near all of human information is free to be had on the internet for the low, low price of a monthly broadband bill. The real expense comes when you want a piece of paper that says you know all this that other people will take seriously.
Thats about certificated stuff from school. Knowledge has never been more accessible than today.
It is wild to me that tuition is SO expensive and quality educational content is SO ubiquitous now. It does take a lot of time, skill, and effort to provide quality educational experiences, but man is it weird that it is simultaneously free and ridiculously overpriced.
University is overpriced, but a degree isn’t just saying that you’ve gained knowledge. Being able to look up and memorize stuff doesn’t mean you’ll be good employee. if you can’t work effectively with a team or tend not to finish a project all the knowledge in the world means nothing.
The most important thing most degrees demonstrate is that you can work for years on a project with multiple milestones involving multiple disciplines, work with others or self-direct, and meet goals.
There are a lot more quality free learning resources than people realise.
Honestly, there isn’t hardly anything you couldn’t learn on your own. But what higher education provides is structure. It can be very difficult to actually follow through with the education if you do not have scheduled classes, exams you have to study for, deadlines for projects/exams, etc
One of the reasons some branches of learning are called “disciplines”
Where im from we have libraries and the internet. Now getting job skills. that is a tough one.
Essentially, because it takes labor to create educational material. Unless you own slaves labor isn’t free. And in fact with the modern library and Internet access I’d argue self educating is more accessible than ever in history.
Private lessons don’t make you smarter. They just make you more well equipped with.
I am a lifetime student. I am not smarter. I am not a smarty pant
The library is free, my dude
Gatekeeping education.
Keep the rich rich and the poor poor.
The rich got theirs and it’s a ladder they can pull up to stay wealthy.
*in the US. In Germany a semester at my university costs about 300 Euros and that includes cheaper lunch and a ticket to use all public transport in the whole of Germany.
You’re proud of giving students free ICE tickets? What is wrong with you???
What?
I guess the joke is that in Germany the high speed train is called “ICE” (named that way way before the US department)
Is this a bot? It makes no sense
I would argue that its rare for education to make you smarter, it mostly makes you more knowlegable.
Knowledge is mostly free though. You can get it from the internet, from the library etc. A lot of what you are paying for is the certification - some places let you just sit the exam I think.
Exactly. Smarter doesn’t equate well educated.
Or in some cases, like FOSS, the knowledge is freely available, but you pay for a detailed course or tutorial to receive that information in a simpler, more streamlined way.
A lot of the time I paid to have it taught to me so badly that I would have been better off with a textbook. 😢
They then call me up once every few years to ask for a donation! Fk off, I’m still paying off the loan!
Because billionaires have an interest in remaining billionaires, and if everyone was smart, there’d be more people tearing down the structures that consolidate wealth and maintain wealth inequality.
gatekeeping
Obtaining education doesn’t increase your intelligence.
