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Re:Stanford student collects her Master's degree at the age ... by janalsncm on Friday June 21, 2024 @05:30PM (#40754033)
Maybe it isn’t meant to be, and maybe it’s not very good at it, but a bachelor’s degree is a de facto prerequisite to almost any office job.

Schools know this, which is why they can continue to charge more and more every year. But when anyone brings up the fact that maybe university is suboptimal vocational training, they retreat back into claiming they’re not. You can’t have it both ways.

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Re:Stanford student collects her Master's degree at the age ... by jjk166 on Friday June 21, 2024 @05:49PM (#40754195)
That bachelors degrees should not be a prerequisite for office jobs only reinforces the argument that education is not meant to be vocational training.

And bachelors degrees are not the only form of education, nor the one being discussed here.

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