Thursday, May 19, 2011

"My Degree is Worthless"

Another Gen Y victim to the education bubble.

And another snowflake to add to the burgeoning mountain of snow that will be sure to turn into an avalanche and come crushing down on the previous generations that lied to them in the future.

Something tells me the catch phrase of Gen Y will be, "Do you like cheap nursing homes?"

Gary makes a good point that is worth listing here;

"Certainly, young people have been handed a horrible situation. However, they voted overwhelmingly for the idiot that is putting the last nails in the coffin of freedom and economic opportunity. The young have been given a deep hole for an inheritance and are busy digging deeper."

7 comments:

CBMTTek said...

"On the other hand, the experience of going to college helped make me the outgoing, quick-witted, man-whore that I am today"

Yep, that more then justifies the cost and time required to get a BA in political science.

It is that kind of rationalization that is preventing the US from moving forward as the industrial country it could still be.

Gary said...

If you pursue a degree in drinking and chasing girls, of course that is worthless as a learning experience.
Go to college if you want to learn. Live in your parents basement if you want to drink and chase girls.
It is incredible how lazy and useless our citizens have become.
Certainly, young people have been handed a horrible situation. However, they voted overwhelmingly for the idiot that is putting the last nails in the coffin of freedom and economic opportunity.
The young have been given a deep hole for an inheritance and are busy digging deeper.

PeppermintPanda said...

While I would agree that secondary school is leaving students unprepared for a university education, I don’t think that lack of intelligence is why 80% of Liberal Arts majors find their degrees worthless. The real problem is overgraduation ...

If you graduate 5 times as many students as the market demands, the bottom 80% (based on a variety of metrics) will have difficulty succeeding.

Anonymous said...

NYTimes has an article on it, they are so slow to catch on or perhaps just hiding it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/business/economy/19grads.html

Gx1080 said...

I've never understood why people think that Liberal Arts degrees are useful. Never heard about marketable skills?

Anonymous said...

"Never heard about marketable skills?"

Actually, no. They don't teach you that in high school, they just tell you to go to uni. If you pick Liberal Arts then you don't learn about marketable skills either. Its not until reality gives you a hard slap up the side of the head that you learn about marketable skills. Obviously, if they were teaching kids this in HS they would not be making so many stupid decisions.

The blame for this stupidity rests partially with HS which just preps students (and some would say indoctrinates) to go to college and do a liberal arts degree.

After all, who do you think make up the majority of HS teachers...


Breeze

Anonymous said...

The people pushing liberal arts degrees work for the government, which is just about the only place where they're valuable. In my experience government workers (including and especially teachers) are incredibly clueless as to how the private sector works, so of course they push students to get liberal arts degrees. It worked for them!