Yeah, people think of it too much like free money falling from the sky instead of the investment that it should be to justify the theft via taxation that’s paying for it.
Education is one of the best investments a country can make. It pays for itself many times over. Anybody complaining about education expenditure from a fiscal perspective is an idiot.
An educated populace is also key for a healthy democracy. Oh, maybe that’s why conservatives don’t like it…
The US isn’t even making that investment, students have to bleed out the ass for it and there’s still people out there complaining about the curriculum they’re choosing
If I was paying €10 000 a year for college I’d damn well expect to learn whatever the fuck I want in it
Right, but while you were trying your damnedest to get your quip in you seem to have overlooked the fact that that’s literally what we’re talking about - investing in education and ensuring it’s not wasted on pointless pursuits.
What is a “pointless pursuit”? History and any marginalized population by the list. So apparently when the government makes a plan for how to invigorate an area, they don’t need to know anything about it’s culture and history? We don’t need people who understand things like that. Every citizen is the same obviously any thing the government demands is correct and will work out for all populations.
Also why does the state even fund PhDs? PhDs don’t enter industry and spin that economy baby, so that worthless. Doctors and lawyers can just take out more loans. It’s fine. Looking at that why fund programs for most master’s degrees? What companies require one anyway?
I’m being flippang here because even as a STEM major, I’ve gotten so much mileage out of the “useless” part of my degree. Being exposed to those “pointless pursuits” allowed me to build things that people actually needed and avoid the pitfalls before we exposed people to them.
When I was in school, I wondered why the state was forcing me to take these stupid humanities classes at an engineering university at that, but I see it now. Mine was a school where humanities students had to learn to code a bit, and engineers had to learn do media analysis and probably take more history than they wanted, but getting out into the world, I’ve found that the engineers who got that exposure are just better because they know there is a whole class of problem involving people and they know when it’s time to ask for help or when it’s time to do research.
Yeah, people think of it too much like free money falling from the sky instead of the investment that it should be to justify the theft via taxation that’s paying for it.
Education is one of the best investments a country can make. It pays for itself many times over. Anybody complaining about education expenditure from a fiscal perspective is an idiot.
An educated populace is also key for a healthy democracy. Oh, maybe that’s why conservatives don’t like it…
The US isn’t even making that investment, students have to bleed out the ass for it and there’s still people out there complaining about the curriculum they’re choosing
If I was paying €10 000 a year for college I’d damn well expect to learn whatever the fuck I want in it
Right, but while you were trying your damnedest to get your quip in you seem to have overlooked the fact that that’s literally what we’re talking about - investing in education and ensuring it’s not wasted on pointless pursuits.
You unironically said “theft via taxation” so you are just about the last person I want to hear from concerning education.
An educated populace is good. Yes, even in the fields that you personally don’t see value in.
You always have to wonder how many paragraphs until JFK jr when you hear someone say that
What is a “pointless pursuit”? History and any marginalized population by the list. So apparently when the government makes a plan for how to invigorate an area, they don’t need to know anything about it’s culture and history? We don’t need people who understand things like that. Every citizen is the same obviously any thing the government demands is correct and will work out for all populations.
Also why does the state even fund PhDs? PhDs don’t enter industry and spin that economy baby, so that worthless. Doctors and lawyers can just take out more loans. It’s fine. Looking at that why fund programs for most master’s degrees? What companies require one anyway?
I’m being flippang here because even as a STEM major, I’ve gotten so much mileage out of the “useless” part of my degree. Being exposed to those “pointless pursuits” allowed me to build things that people actually needed and avoid the pitfalls before we exposed people to them.
When I was in school, I wondered why the state was forcing me to take these stupid humanities classes at an engineering university at that, but I see it now. Mine was a school where humanities students had to learn to code a bit, and engineers had to learn do media analysis and probably take more history than they wanted, but getting out into the world, I’ve found that the engineers who got that exposure are just better because they know there is a whole class of problem involving people and they know when it’s time to ask for help or when it’s time to do research.