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Re:What American universities can learn from Germany (2016) by erdbeerkuchen on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:42AM (#14569930)
If someone wants to take up a certain trade, why is it stupid to teach him the necessary skills for that trade? It seems much less wasteful to me than a system in which everyone goes to college for four years and racks up a bunch of debt for an education that is ultimately of little value to most.
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Re:What American universities can learn from Germany (2016) by Zahlmeister2 on Friday June 16, 2017 @12:23PM (#14570250)
It's nonsense to force them into getting a poor government education just so that they are allowed to perform a trade that doesn't even require it.

What sense, for instance, does it make to go to school for three years and get paid poorly just to work as a salesperson?

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