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daredtowork

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16. College is buying connections as well as credentials

Reply to GreatGazoo (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 19, 2015, 02:36 PM

Oct 2015

This is why online degrees are a terrible idea. What happens at college is that young people create relationships outside their immediate family or geo-local hierarchies. This is why prestigious colleges are "upward mobility machines": the credential provides the upward, and the physical relocation provides the mobility. Also, the stepping stone of college housing allows rural kids to transition to urban areas. While they are still in college housing, they can get a job and accumulate enough money for a deposit plus first and last months rent.

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Why should "education" cost money? [View all] kentuck Oct 2015 OP

It doesn't. Schools and degrees do whatthehey Oct 2015 #1

I think the real issue for billionaires is that socialism eclipses many private industries. GreatGazoo Oct 2015 #2

But should "knowledge" be measured by a simple piece of paper? kentuck Oct 2015 #3

Not defending it at all. I think college should be completely redesigned GreatGazoo Oct 2015 #6

In my opinion... kentuck Oct 2015 #7

"about having roughly the same experience and path that your future corporate boss had" HughBeaumont Oct 2015 #5

College is buying connections as well as credentials daredtowork Oct 2015 #16

check out edx hill2016 Oct 2015 #4

Because teachers deserve to be paid a good salary? Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #8

Of course, but it should be a shared sacrifice... kentuck Oct 2015 #9

Star professors (like generals) do get ridiculous salaries and perks... Human101948 Oct 2015 #10

We could argue that the "market" should determine their salaries... kentuck Oct 2015 #11

In the case of higher education, there's almost always little connection between Arugula Latte Oct 2015 #14

Open source everything tk2kewl Oct 2015 #12

Because our god lords say we have them thar taxes for big guvimint mmonk Oct 2015 #13

Unfortunately, our system is still, to a certain extent, influenced by that of the British. Cal33 Oct 2015 #15