Universities should be more than toll gates

Re:Universities should be more than toll gates by ioteg on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:46AM (#45323756)

Most people don’t go to the university to learn, they go to get a diploma. If you don’t pay tuition they will not give you a diploma.

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Re:Universities should be more than toll gates by jagged-chisel on Sunday September 21, 2025 @12:13PM (#45323985)

And we’ve all been sold a bill of goods on the necessity of diplomas and degrees. Because businesses have been sold a bill of goods on the quality of employees with diplomas and degrees.

Within at least the last 15 years, the paper provided by a school is no guarantee of better pay - but that’s how high schoolers are convinced to go into excessive debt for attending post-secondary schools.

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Re:Universities should be more than toll gates by mcherm on Sunday September 21, 2025 @12:34PM (#45324234)

> the paper provided by a school is no guarantee of better pay

Perhaps not, but the lack of that paper IS a guarantee of worse pay.

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