Skip class often did you? :lamo
Do you think your smarter than me or at least that your position on this topic is better than mine? Statistically speaking I can bet I have a significantly higher education level than you. If you have a more rational, evidenced and nuanced position then me though - guess what, you win. In fact, you could in fact be smarter than me. Want to know why? Because today more than any other time in history there are other ways for smart people to learn, to develop and to get educated. Not to mention education doesn’t in fact teach universal critical thinking skills they claim as those are immeasurable. They hope to create those. Universities teach general knowledge and for most in obscure and/or over-specific subjects.
What does that have to do with my argument?
The study says something you find outrageous, and your first reaction was to assume the absurd. You really believe people want others to be dumb? That they must hate intelligence?
Instead of investigating, you assumed you understood this subject, took no time to take a step back and try to understand. You just laughed at these fools and took it to confirm your beliefs.
Then I came in your thread and claimed maybe it has to do with “harm” developing in such institutions has happen at other times when knowledge was guard by walls of pay and privilege instead of competing “free market of ideas” and instead of saying anything of merit, you mock my ability to do well in post-secondary?
Universities traditionally were for people in the highest brackets of intelligence or with parents who thought you should be. You had no need to go to them unless you were interested in finding your ilk. In modern times, many if not most feel they must leading to the greater and greater increases in numbers. And maybe, the idealists are right and all those average performers didn’t affect anything…but you assume you can teach the process of intelligence by paying for it and that is indeed what is happening. Two very large assumptions.
Anyway. Your clearly not interested in discussion but you may want to take a step back a some point. Not that you'll listen to me.
Of course college isn't for everyone. BUT, good schools teach critical thinking skills. At the very least that makes people far more employable and generally more successful.
That's a marketing claim, but if you can prove that? Feel free to walk us through the theory.
Correlation does not equal causation. The distribution curves and breakdowns on those might tell you some important details.
:: Do smart successful people prefer university or does university create smart successful people?
The fact is college grads earn roughly double on average. That means they likely pay more taxes and are far less likely to be on welfare.
But apparently republicans think those are bad things. You cant make this **** up.
Again with the modifying someones argument to the absurd. Is it that hard to try and look for what might be a rational reason one might say that?
You need to understand. An educated, well rounded individual who comprehends a complex world and can understand nuance, other cultures, and logical thinking is precisely the people that end up not voting Republican.
So if there were lots of those shown to be Republican, does that disprove that?
In your mind, are those things required to be democrats or whatever? Or is it just, yeah we have our emotional voters but their the exceptions to the rule.
Yes. Collages are generally really bad.
Of course, they shouldn't have to teach spelling, since that's a skill most of us pick up in grammar school.
So if your better at spelling and grammar your more intelligent? No reasons there might have varity in those things on a forum.
And by the way, “collages are generally really bad” does not equal “starting to do more harm than good”. But they don’t teach logic in grammar school let alone more and more collages.
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