A student stands up to a teacher

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He dropped out of school and then came back because he realised he wanted education.

This is something a teacher said:


Is not about being young or old to study. Is about the lack of interest of the teachers for the education of their students.
Or because there is literally nothing he can do without a high school diploma or equivalent. Even then, a Bachelors is the standard, and is about as worthless as a high school diploma in the current job market.

Looks like I only got the 5%, then.
 
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degrees in general are becoming less and less useful, especially in some fields.

take the games industry for example, the % of people who have degrees related to games that work in the actual games industry, is shockingly low. why? because the degrees are handed out by for-profit schools who need to show high pass rates to keep getting people to go to them. the problem there, is that in an industry like games, you have to be good at practical art, not coursework. there are very few universities that focus on practical art over coursework because (at least in england) you cannot have a "bachelor" attached to your degree if it contains fewer than x amount of words written. at a university i recently did a talk at, i was told by one of the lecturers "half these guys will never be good enough, but i can't fail them because i've been given a minimum pass rate". and that's fundamentally wrong. more and more people get degrees each year in many fields, but can't actually do what the degree is for. it's more like a certificate of attendance than a certificate of competence.

the entire education system is focused on making money instead of making good, skilled people.
 
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degrees in general are becoming less and less useful, especially in some fields.

take the games industry for example, the % of people who have degrees related to games that work in the actual games industry, is shockingly low. why? because the degrees are handed out by for-profit schools who need to show high pass rates to keep getting people to go to them. the problem there, is that in an industry like games, you have to be good at practical art, not coursework. there are very few universities that focus on practical art over coursework because (at least in england) you cannot have a "bachelor" attached to your degree if it contains fewer than x amount of words written. at a university i recently did a talk at, i was told by one of the lecturers "half these guys will never be good enough, but i can't fail them because i've been given a minimum pass rate". and that's fundamentally wrong. more and more people get degrees each year in many fields, but can't actually do what the degree is for. it's more like a certificate of attendance than a certificate of competence.

the entire education system is focused on making money instead of making good, skilled people.
Word. We're kind of on the "What happens when capitalism goes awry" end of for-profit companies and industries, especially in the US where they even run the prison industry and make deals with judges in order to get as many people convicted as possible to fill the prison's slots.

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“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.”

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One major issue I noticed during my job hunts is that potential employers don't seem to see a degree as a potentially highly skilled employee, but more as an extra 10 dollars an hour that they have to pay.
 
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One major issue I noticed during my job hunts is that potential employers don't seem to see a degree as a potentially highly skilled employee, but more as an extra 10 dollars an hour that they have to pay.
It doesn't matter what or who you are... the one that can make the highest profit gets the job.
 

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