Re:A Debt to Education
by overtone on Saturday February 02, 2019 @10:55AM
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> You sound like the Church from days of old.
Certainly that was not my intention.
> ... but my dad went to divinity school
Out of curiosity, did the bill for that come up to anything near 40,000$?
> ... it’s basically a combination of logic/philosophy, ethics, history, and psychology, wrapped in metaphor
... that is also worth fourty thousand dollars?
> I wish all pastors had to be so well informed before they were allowed in front of a brainwashed congregation.
I wish pastors who are teaching all their reassuring hogwash wouldn't have to be required to go into five figures of debt for the privilege.
> So they pay for it with personal debt; I don’t see the problem.
I'll tell you about the problem. US student loan debt isn't just personal debt. No sane credit institution would bankroll a 40,000$ degree in divinity unless graduates were regularly raking in six figures (which I doubt).
What makes it all work is the government guarantee. This, in turn, has caused massive price inflation for all degrees, whether they are bullshit or not. You have a whole generation of students who are either not going to be able to pay back the debt, or who are going to have to give up on a significant amount of other spending, which is a drain on the economy.
Certainly that was not my intention.
> ... but my dad went to divinity school
Out of curiosity, did the bill for that come up to anything near 40,000$?
> ... it’s basically a combination of logic/philosophy, ethics, history, and psychology, wrapped in metaphor
... that is also worth fourty thousand dollars?
> I wish all pastors had to be so well informed before they were allowed in front of a brainwashed congregation.
I wish pastors who are teaching all their reassuring hogwash wouldn't have to be required to go into five figures of debt for the privilege.
> So they pay for it with personal debt; I don’t see the problem.
I'll tell you about the problem. US student loan debt isn't just personal debt. No sane credit institution would bankroll a 40,000$ degree in divinity unless graduates were regularly raking in six figures (which I doubt).
What makes it all work is the government guarantee. This, in turn, has caused massive price inflation for all degrees, whether they are bullshit or not. You have a whole generation of students who are either not going to be able to pay back the debt, or who are going to have to give up on a significant amount of other spending, which is a drain on the economy.