School is all about signaling, not skill-building
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Re: School is all about signaling, not skill-building
#2The main problem is that students in the US are insanely busy. The curriculum is substandard no matter where you go. In the future, I’m hoping to see more individual studying encouraged by the school. It’s a good skill to pick up, esp considering skills might age faster.
Classes are a waste of time, out of the 1.5 hrs, there’s maybe 20 minutes of content.
Teachers tend to be full of themselves and incompetent.
Professors are busy with research, grants etc. curricula tends to be out of date.
God when I think about the shit I could have done in the 16 years that I spent in school I legit want to puke.
But the worst people are the administrators. I’m yet to see a single school administrator make a rational decision. This is particularly apparent in the responses to school shootings. Yeah, make it more like prisons, thats are gonna help. Also the prevalence of women in school administration is not good for the male school population, they make decisions that tend to ignore certain gender differences.
Don’t even get me started on the idiocy that is school athletics.
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#3It's an arms race tainting a lot more than education. Hopefully we can UBI + healthcare a détente.
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#4The main problem is that students in the US are insanely busy. The curriculum is substandard no matter where you go. In the future, I’m hoping to see more individual studying encouraged by the school. It’s a good skill to pick up, esp considering skills might age faster. Classes are a waste of time, out of the 1.5 hrs, there’s maybe 20 minutes of content. Teachers tend to be full of themselves and incompetent. Profes…
Why didn't you drop out then?
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#5The main problem is that students in the US are insanely busy. The curriculum is substandard no matter where you go. In the future, I’m hoping to see more individual studying encouraged by the school. It’s a good skill to pick up, esp considering skills might age faster. Classes are a waste of time, out of the 1.5 hrs, there’s maybe 20 minutes of content. Teachers tend to be full of themselves and incompetent. Profes…
Why didn't you drop out then?
Visa.
Re: School is all about signaling, not skill-building
#6The main problem is that students in the US are insanely busy. The curriculum is substandard no matter where you go. In the future, I’m hoping to see more individual studying encouraged by the school. It’s a good skill to pick up, esp considering skills might age faster. Classes are a waste of time, out of the 1.5 hrs, there’s maybe 20 minutes of content. Teachers tend to be full of themselves and incompetent. Profes…
Why didn't you drop out then?
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#7> Researchers consistently find that most of education’s payoff comes from graduation, from crossing the academic finish line.
Not even. Just being able to show that you "went" to Harvard is a powerful enough of a signal. You can join, drop out immediately after, start a startup, fail, an then likely end up somewhere really prestigious anyway.
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#8Admissions based on standardized test scores ONLY. Make colleges co-sign loans. Fixed it.
Re: School is all about signaling, not skill-building
#9The main problem is that students in the US are insanely busy. The curriculum is substandard no matter where you go. In the future, I’m hoping to see more individual studying encouraged by the school. It’s a good skill to pick up, esp considering skills might age faster. Classes are a waste of time, out of the 1.5 hrs, there’s maybe 20 minutes of content. Teachers tend to be full of themselves and incompetent. Profes…
In my experience, teachers are competent. It's just that their main competence is teaching those who are unmotivated and unwilling to learn, so those who are willing mostly get neglected. It makes perfect sense if you think about it.
Re: School is all about signaling, not skill-building
#10Admissions based on standardized test scores ONLY. Make colleges co-sign loans. Fixed it.
Since the article says the same thing happens in high school, it seems incredibly likely that your solution is not actually a solution and would have no impact.