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Re:The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; ... by i_love_limes on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:59PM (#24873321)
Not sure about you, but universities as institutions that historically had only places for upper class men with no room or tolerance for anyone who didn't look like them isn't exactly the pinnacle of morality. One might even consider that a morally bankrupt starting point...
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Re:The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; ... by cmdshiftf4 on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:03PM (#24873382)
Universities weren't historically jobs training programs, as they've now been reduced to, and so weren't even a consideration for the vast majority of people for whom even basic literacy wasn't requisite for their day-to-day job.

Not founding all things for everyone does not imply moral bankruptcy.

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Re:The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; ... by eruci on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:20PM (#24873618)
It may have started that way, but then progress was made based on the principle of meritocracy. Now it is regressing due to vague "social justice" principles.
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Re:The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; ... by i_love_limes on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:28PM (#24874988)
So when was this pinnacle of education, out of curiosity? It's interesting you mention meritocracy, considering how classist education has always been
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Re:The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; ... by eruci on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:12PM (#24875371)
I graduated from a meritocratic institution 20 years ago. Got there on a scholarship, studied unhindered by the politics of the day for 5 years, and it made me who I am today.

Unfortunately the same institution is today spending too much time and energy on various socio-political abstractions, hence it is not being able to offer the same opportunities for scientific exploration I enjoyed during my time there to the new generation.

From my experience, the pinnacle of education was around the end of the cold war here in the West, then it started going downhill once we lacked a properly defined adversary and started to look for enemies and oppressors in our own midst.

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