Picture caption: "Pack of Dachshunds"
Video voice over: "mauled by a pack of Dachshunds"
article, waaaaay down below the fold, "These aren't actually dachshunds."
JOURNALISM
So, it was three dachshunds stacked on top of each other under a trench coat?
I think you mean colleges have maximized profits exponentially, as per the tenets of free market capitalism...
Isn't that at least partially because your students, as a population, have turned into a risk-free investment vehicle? Student loans are attractive to lenders and schools AFAIK, since they can't be discharged in bankruptcy except through adversarial/undue hardship weirdness, are given out like candy, and both the subsidized and unsubsidized ones are guaranteed by the federal government.
Under Capitalism, Industry will never turn down an opportunity to gain advantage when it is on someone else’s dime.
While this may be the image they want to portray, I will never believe this until the day I see this mandatory* education include actual, useful life skills beyond the usual token “Home Ec” class that barely teaches you the difference between dill and sweet pickle relish.
I agree with you. I don't think we're actually doing a good job of education, on the whole. There are some schools, some teachers, who are doing a better job than others, but on the whole the system is lacking. However, I still think we need to try for better public education, because it benefits everyone for the populace to be educated.
Having the capacity to follow directions is something kids learn early. Most of the time, it's more about not being open to following directions *of a certain type* that holds people back. Be that fear of fucking up, or just not wanting to bother, I can't say. Some cooking is, in fact, complicated. But being able to boil water and throw noodles in until a timer dings is not complex.
Schools are not raising prices because demand is rising. In fact, schools are competing hard for students because there are more colleges now than there ever were before. The students are the ones in demand, not the colleges.
That was a very persuasive read! I do wonder what the arguments against it might look like (perhaps that the conditions that lead to the 2000-level funding are anomalous?), I'll try and do some googlin' tonight.
I dont think there's any class that can fix that for you...More often than not I turn on the wrong element
Wait, that's still a thing?
I had a friend in high school who failed to make a Hot Pocket (well it was a Red Baron version of a pocket dinner). She put the whole thing, plastic and all, in the microwave. Not all my friends are this bad, but the majority would not be able to follow the instructions in a recipe (prior to having learned after high school). Actually, I know a lot of people who have trouble following instructions, period.
Yeah, and no amount of school is going to help them if they can't be bothered. All school is is a place to teach you to follow instructions.
The cynic in me replied, "War. Either they do there, or they don't."
Sounds like it would make a good name for a car, the kind of car a common man would drive.
