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Re:The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:51PM (#19332244)
> general studies courses that make up that "expansive view" of college really are repeats of high school with slightly more work

My humanities courses in college were bona fide mind-expanding. The problem is many colleges run their programs more like trade schools, with zero emphasis on balance between the arts and sciences.

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Re:The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College by finder83 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:04PM (#19333001)
I wish mine were more so. It probably does depend a lot on the school.
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Re:The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College by vonmoltke on Thursday March 07, 2019 @08:25PM (#19334349)
I took Junior and senior level history classes to satisfy my social science elective requirements. I found them very interesting and enlightening.

I tutored a few people who took the sophomore level "world history" classes that most kids took to satisfy the requirements. Those sounded like little more than brutal rote memorization exercises.

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