Forum Post: Should the singular OWS issue be "Education Reform & Investment"?
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 4:12 p.m. EST by jbruso
(4)
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
Students are buried in debt, some with unmarketable skills. Millions are unemployed without the basic ability to acquire more marketable skills.
Our education system is a relic of the industrial age, an assembly line outputting worthless products for the 21st century.
If our children were empowered to be the most adaptable, sharpest, most diversely skilled in the world, wouldn't that be the best way to Occupy Wall Street?
I can solve the problems. Don't go to a 4 year summer camp studying liberals arts and expect to be of use to someone. Society has invested in libraries, go use them.
Teddy,
Doesn't the fact that so many students have chosen unmarketable degrees, acquiring unmarketable skills, and that our education system entertained these efforts point to a broken education system?
If education worked the way it could, then wouldn't universities and colleges only offer a worthwhile education?
Yes, but a lot of people go to school wanting to fulfill a certain interest, yet that interest is not a marketable skill. The higher education system needs some major reform starting with the end of tenure or limited renewable tenure. That way the performance of the professor is always reviewed. This would open up more doors to the poor adjuncts that are fantastic teacher yet always pull the slake for the full professor.
^Like
People need to actually think about how they will pay a student loan before they sign for it. You can spend $250K for a masters in philosophy but who the hell cares?
Don't forget you can't bankrupt student loans nor credit card debt, so that makes they money even more easier and accessible to the people that do not belong in college.
Exactly, I think one of our problems is that too many people want a 4-year degree. Not all 4-year degrees are equal. Some are utterly useless.
We need plumbers, carpenters, electricians, car repairmen, construction workers, etc. All of those are better professions than what at least half of 4-year degrees will get you.