I Owe It All to Community College
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I Owe It All to Community College
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#2Awesome read.
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#3> classes I dropped after the first hour (astronomy, because it was all math)
Yet another cultural figure stating without embarrassment how bad they are at math.
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#4$95 dollars a semester.
It shows you how society used to provide resources for people to bootstrap their lives.
The same individuals who benefited from this investment have not decided to pay it forward. They argue for lower taxes and support for education.
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#5> classes I dropped after the first hour (astronomy, because it was all math) Yet another cultural figure stating without embarrassment how bad they are at math.
Clearly he optimized his brain for arts. Why would he be good at math?
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#6> classes I dropped after the first hour (astronomy, because it was all math) Yet another cultural figure stating without embarrassment how bad they are at math.
WILSON!!!
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#7> classes I dropped after the first hour (astronomy, because it was all math) Yet another cultural figure stating without embarrassment how bad they are at math.
He never states he is bad at math. It sounds like to me he was much more interested in subjects like art, literature and film. Which, given his career makes a lot of sense.
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#8> classes I dropped after the first hour (astronomy, because it was all math) Yet another cultural figure stating without embarrassment how bad they are at math.
Clearly he optimized his brain for arts. Why would he be good at math?
Not the point. It undermines the whole STEM promotion that the US is currently undergoing. You never hear anybody brag about how they no can read gooder, if they're an athlete, butcher, scientist, whatever.
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#9I have issues with the Obama plan, not because I'm against community colleges, but because I have issues with how this will (probably) be funded (read: taxes). As a libertarian / ancap who believes taxation is theft, I don't support anything involving spending tax dollars, no matter how noble the end.
That said, I'm a community college grad myself, three times over. I have an A.G.E. (General Education) from Brunswick Community College, and an A.A.S in Computer Programming and another A.A.S in High Performance Computing from Wake Technical Community College. And I have to say, I'm an unabashed fan of community colleges in principle. I just want us to find better ways to fund things like this.
Anyway, I think so highly of the people who come through the community college system (well, some subset of them anyway), that I've often said that when the day comes that we can afford to hire employees at Fogbeam, I intend to recruit heavily at the local community colleges (Wake Tech, Durham Tech, Alamance Tech, etc.) I also intend to recruit at the "second tier" universities (UNC-Pembroke, Elizabeth City State, Fayetteville State, NC Central, NC A&T, Shaw, St. Augustines, Peace, Meredith, etc.
Why? Well, I believe there are really good people to be found - people who are easily smart enough to have gone to Harvard, Stanford, whatever, but just didn't for whatever reason. And if you're recruiting at these schools, you're probably not competing with Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Glaxo Smith Kline, Facebook, etc. for talent. Instead, you're competing with the local furniture manufacturing plant, the local electric utility, etc.
So yeah, community colleges are good. I'd just like to see more of the scenarios like we had at BCC back in the day. Some local rich millionaire type (a real estate tycoon) setup an endowment to provide free tuition at BCC for any graduate of any Brunswick County high-school. I'd love to see a concerted, nationwide effort to build a coalition of philanthropists of this nature to fund this "free college for everybody" thing, instead of taking it out of the federal govt. budget.
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#10> classes I dropped after the first hour (astronomy, because it was all math) Yet another cultural figure stating without embarrassment how bad they are at math.
It's really not for everyone.