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29. an education is to open your mind, broaden your horizons, learn how to think,

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 01:04 PM

Mar 2014

learn how to research, etc.

job training is a happy by-product of all of that, although if you all you want is job training there are other ways to get that.

i mean, why would a college offer courses in philosophy, for instance, which one could argue is nearly useless in terms of job training?

then again, in my current job, i'm utilizing things from courses i took 30 years ago that i never would have expected to be professionally useful. heck the art class even proved useful as we just hung some artwork in our renovated office space!

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] damnedifIknow Mar 2014 OP

Stupid people vote Republican AgingAmerican Mar 2014 #1

I so agree damnedifIknow Mar 2014 #3

this has been happening for a long time... MindMover Mar 2014 #2

I think I just got dumber hfojvt Mar 2014 #4

Facebook is a great example damnedifIknow Mar 2014 #10

I don't think that is "dumbing down", I think the masses have always been like that Victor_c3 Mar 2014 #11

it is the end result reddread Mar 2014 #12

They used to make John Wayne goes to war films. You call 12 Years a Slave 'miliatary Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #16

I met John Wayne reddread Mar 2014 #19

Thank goodness, because his True Grit is almost unwatchably cartoonish. Orrex Mar 2014 #21

Shit all of his movies... My dad loved John Wayne SomethingFishy Mar 2014 #23

I agree completely (nt) Orrex Mar 2014 #25

John Wayne was a local, his kid went to school with me. His films were reactionary Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #27

those would have to be your words reddread Mar 2014 #33

Why are you being rude? I don't agree with you that films 'used to be provocative' and are Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #37

There are plenty of decent and provocative movies SomethingFishy Mar 2014 #22

Do you think THAT was different 30 years ago? hfojvt Mar 2014 #15

Education ISN'T job training. FSogol Mar 2014 #13

really? hfojvt Mar 2014 #14

an education is to open your mind, broaden your horizons, learn how to think, unblock Mar 2014 #29

none of those are really the result hfojvt Mar 2014 #38

wow, sorry you didn't get much out of your education. the rest of us do, for the most part. unblock Mar 2014 #39

what you got from your education hfojvt Mar 2014 #40

most of my career was as a computer programmer, based largely on skills i learned before college. unblock Mar 2014 #42

and yet hfojvt Mar 2014 #43

I've posited this same theory right here on DU Le Taz Hot Mar 2014 #5

Yes. Exactly. PCIntern Mar 2014 #7

I agree. woo me with science Mar 2014 #8

George Carlin nailed it the best... SomethingFishy Mar 2014 #24

+1 Auggie Mar 2014 #31

It is easily seen. easily. reddread Mar 2014 #6

Yeah, pining away for the bigoted past. Here is a great article about LGBT issues then. Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #17

boy are you barking up the wrong trees. n/t reddread Mar 2014 #20

I offered you facts. You offered of the past as a superior time. I offered up another Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #26

An Informed Public is neccessary for a democracy to function ... LisaLynne Mar 2014 #9

Not good damnedifIknow Mar 2014 #18

I don't necessarily disagree, but I had to comment on that graph.. X_Digger Mar 2014 #28

It's the downward trend in score that worries me damnedifIknow Mar 2014 #30

At the current pace of 3.5% over 40 years? X_Digger Mar 2014 #32

Down is down damnedifIknow Mar 2014 #34

Beware of the source, even though the interviewee's point is valid: alp227 Mar 2014 #35

yup and there's UglyGreed Mar 2014 #36

Attack the source and ignore the message damnedifIknow Mar 2014 #41