Silicon Valley is wrong about college
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Silicon Valley is wrong about college
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#2"Got a chance to reboot my education, which was something I really needed to do. I had a professor in my freshman year of college who showed me that my mind could do math. And from there, I took charge."
How important do we think Maths education is?
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#3The college experience is still pretty worthwhile, but the consequences of taking out loans in order to attend college are gettin uglier.
My wife and I are both working in service fields - I am a teacher, and she is a counselor. We are both good at what we do. But we are at our income ceilings. We are paying as much in student loan payments as we are in housing costs. some of my colleagues will be in debt for the rest of their lives.
Going to college is not the same straightforward decision it used to be.
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#4Seriously, this post again? These are not black and white issues like every article on HN would lead you to believe.
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#5The college experience is still pretty worthwhile, but the consequences of taking out loans in order to attend college are gettin uglier. My wife and I are both working in service fields - I am a teacher, and she is a counselor. We are both good at what we do. But we are at our income ceilings. We are paying as much in student loan payments as we are in housing costs. some of my colleagues will be in debt for the res…
"Going to college is not the same straightforward decision it used to be."
Honestly, (and you've basically said this), taking out significant loans to go to college is not the same straightforward decision it used to be.
I understand that for some people it's simply not possible to go to college without taking on debt. I don't think this is the case for the vast majority of people. If someone would have made 18 year old me more aware of the burden that not going to a state school and working a job or two during my four years was going to be, I would have been a lot less likely to do it. Sure, I had fun, and I ended up without a lot of debt anyway, but it wasn't worth paying interest on for the better part of a decade.
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#6Your blog post is all over the place.
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#7When you look at the problems our democracy has, probably the biggest one is the "low information voter." The ignorant electorate that says they want government out of our lives, but keep your hands off Medicare and Social Security, for example.
== Puhleeeeeeez.
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#8I also find it worrisome that what are effectively lottery winners are supposed to be role models, be it Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg or, for that matter, rock and movie stars.
Winning the lottery is not a good goal to set for a society or a generation (cf. Kant).
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#9Disagree with the post although never before seen sex and accounting mentioned in the same sentence or on the same side of the comma.
If they have the kind of drive at an early age, school only gets in the way. But school is very important for the dreamers who just talk.
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#10I also find it worrisome that what are effectively lottery winners are supposed to be role models, be it Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg or, for that matter, rock and movie stars. Winning the lottery is not a good goal to set for a society or a generation (cf. Kant).
> (cf. Kant)
Sorry, but what do you mean there?