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Students, professors to protest education cutbacks
Friday, March 5, 2010 5:41 PM
GINOBIFFARONI
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: The "things" you need to teach people are trivial in relation to the required time and skills (people).
Friday, March 5, 2010 5:45 PM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Just a quick reply and then gone - but all those THINGS you point to as an example of resources - electricity and light bulbs, buildings and clean halls, computers and chalk, and invention - are a result of - somebody's effort. Iron is just a rock in the ground until somebody mines it, somebody transports it, somebody smelts it, somebody designs it, somebody machines it ... Those 'things' don't grow on trees ready to be plucked. They aren't found in nature. They are the crystallized work of many people. It still comes back to the 'resource' of people. *************************************************************** Silence is consent.
Friday, March 5, 2010 5:46 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Quote:With limited resources why train people in skill sets that statistical studies would reveal to be not in demand ? WHAT limited resources? Sure we're short of food, water, trees, wildlands, clean air and clean ocean. But we're not short of people. People train people. People learn from people. THAT we have plenty of!
Quote:With limited resources why train people in skill sets that statistical studies would reveal to be not in demand ?
Friday, March 5, 2010 7:42 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 4:41 AM
MAL4PREZ
Saturday, March 6, 2010 8:16 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:As for the unimportance of knowledge: no one is God, and no one knows what education will serve a person later in life, even if it was gotten through a major they moved away from. Primarily, it may serve them through happiness, which I put a higher value on than income. You seem to dismiss the importance of "happiness" without a second throught. What's wrong with someone having a damned good time obtaining knowledge they love? It's not something you have an opportunity to do later in life, might as well when you're 20. Sure, puts you in debt. Again, blame the costs, not the knowledge.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 10:20 AM
Saturday, March 6, 2010 10:46 AM
Quote:Originally posted by mal4prez: Gino: I really enjoy many things you have to say, but you've lost me here. Rant to ensue, sorry for the rantiness. I mean no disrespect. My understanding: communist china worries quite a bit about how many people are doing the important jobs. Over there, according to much I've read and heard from Chinese friends, you train for and do what the govt tells you to do. Myself, I'd prefer to major in the wrong thing and change my field later, even if my mistake costs me some misery along the way (as it did). As for what it costs the students: the high price of education in general is to blame, not a few particular majors you happen to dislike. As for what these "wasted" degrees cost the economy: I imagine that if everyone studying those "useless" subjects quit, the universities would go belly up. The institutions need that tuition money, even if most of it comes through loans. Go after the loans and costs, not the majors. As for the unimportance of knowledge: no one is God, and no one knows what education will serve a person later in life, even if it was gotten through a major they moved away from. Primarily, it may serve them through happiness, which I put a higher value on than income. You seem to dismiss the importance of "happiness" without a second throught. What's wrong with someone having a damned good time obtaining knowledge they love? It's not something you have an opportunity to do later in life, might as well when you're 20. Sure, puts you in debt. Again, blame the costs, not the knowledge. As for combining majors: I can't speak for the other pairings you mentioned, but combining physics and engineering is ridiculous. Sure, for one you need some of the other, but to build a useful level of expertise you have to focus not just on one topic, but on a narrow part of it, exclusively. Either that or stay in school for 20+ years. I took 11 years for me to learn my general topic and specialty, and that barely scratched the surface. Finally, the whole idea of removing the possibility of failure from anything creeps the hell out of it. The basis of the American Dream (not real one, not this corporate/advertising/lawsuit bullshit that's taken over) is that you make your own choices, even if they're bad ones. That's freedom, and that's a free market. If enough people want to study basket weaving, the market will be there to train them and that's as it should be. These students can fulfill their dreams, find out that their dreams were idiotic, than go off older and wiser and better able to find something useful to do. ----------------------------------------------- hmm-burble-blah, blah-blah-blah, take a left
Saturday, March 6, 2010 12:19 PM
NCBROWNCOAT
Saturday, March 6, 2010 12:22 PM
Saturday, March 6, 2010 1:34 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Well said, Mal. Wasn't Russia like that, too, at least at one time?
Saturday, March 6, 2010 3:26 PM
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Sunday, March 7, 2010 8:18 AM
Quote:It seems to me that a government- particularly a democratic government- has an interest in a generally well educated population. And in my view, knowledge is never wasted.
Quote:Look what ignorance gets us - George Bush and Sarah Palin. Our only hope is to get people into school so they'll stop voting for idiots. You may not like folk's choice of major, but at least they're attempting to learn to think.
Sunday, March 7, 2010 9:49 AM
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 9:32 AM
RUE
I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!
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6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: 23 Baltimore schools have zero students proficient in math https://www.foxbaltimore.com/amp/news/project-baltimore/state-test-results-23-baltimore-schools-have-zero-students-proficient-in-math-jovani-patterson-maryland-comprehensive-assessment-program-maryland-governor-wes-moore
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