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Alex C:
Knowledge is a beautiful thing and all, but people have families to feed and a lot of universities run in part off of public funds. That some people value education enough to decide that they are within their rights to require people to cover multiple areas of study despite primarily being interested in the pursuit of a specific degree and field hits me as frankly rather arrogant. I don't mean to come off as the defender of ignorance here, but I question whether it's really the best way to help the most people.
calenlass:
Go to Germany and be railroaded into your field of study in 6th grade, then.
Eris:
I think that was one of the major issues I had when I was at uni, and why I got less and less enthusiastic about it. I was essentially going there for the sake of learning, because it was a degree that probably wouldn't get me a good job anywhere, so I could choose things that interested me, and that seemed great! But the reality of it was that I was unemployed and had very little money and going to uni to jump through hoops to get a piece of paper made me not care about any of the subjects. I had to do a certain amount of specific subjects to get my majors, so I ended up doing classes I didn't want to, which also didn't help, and I ultimately felt like I had to go to uni, rather than wanting to be there, and it was just going to result in my having a fairly large debt on my shoulders.
Talking to fatty about it she said something which made a lot of sense to my head, which was "You seem to be interested in these things, it's just the way uni went about teaching it isn't good for you." And she was right. All the time I felt like I had to rush through topics that interested me to do assignments that didn't interest me; I just wanted to go back and learn more about the little parts of it. I think if I do something like Open Universities here (it's a correspondence course, that you can do one subject at a time if you want) then I might not feel so incredibly stressed to try and get everything done at once, because I have left everything to the last minute because I just don't care.
Jimor:
One of the things I need to look into is whether I'm just going to get a technical certificate in TV production at this community college, or if I want to try for the AA. IF I can transfer the majority of my general education classes from many years ago when I attempted physics at university, I may go for the AA since I might only need to fill in a couple of general ed classes. If I can't, then there's no way I'm sitting through all that again. The chances are good since both are state schools here.
I must say, I did mostly enjoy the general ed classes the first time around, and I really do think they helped me understand more about the world, but right now I have more immediate goals in obtaining a job out of all this.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: calenlass on 20 Oct 2009, 16:53 ---Go to Germany and be railroaded into your field of study in 6th grade, then.
--- End quote ---
False dilemma.
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