TV's Frink said:
CP3S said:
Nonsense!
By that logic all we should be pumping out of our universities would be engineers and computer science majors, and other boring drones.
Someone sounds jealous.
And who would that be?
I love my degrees! With them I get to do what I really enjoy doing, live the life I want to lead, and I get to travel around and relocate when I feel like it. I wouldn't trade it.
TheBoost said:
CP3S said:
Nonsense!
By that logic all we should be pumping out of our universities would be engineers and computer science majors, and other boring drones.
Have you ever worked with engineers? They tend to be some of the most creative problem solving people I've ever met.
On the other hand, put me in a room with a bunch of Lit majors and I hear the same ideas constantly being regurgitated.
Yeah, I know a lot of engineers personally, my best friend is one. I'm not knocking them by any means, we need people with those kinds of skills, the point I was trying to make was that we need more out of our universities than just an endless assembly line of engineers, medical professionals, business and CS graduates.
Never's line of reasoning that if it doesn't make anything then it isn't worth it is flawed. I agree that flying blind, not striving to make yourself marketable, and just expecting it to fall into place because you earned a degree is dumb. I think we put far too much emphasis on the college degree in American, and as a result we have a market place filled with unemployed (or underemployed) people with degrees they will never find work in.
But that doesn't mean anything not related to these high in demand fields is useless. I hear that sentiment way too often anymore, it feels like we've grown jaded, given up, and are now telling our kids if you're not going to do this, don't even bother. If someone is just flying blind and getting a degree to get a degree, then feel free to educate them on the likely reality of the situation, but these other fields still exist and are viable. I'd hate to see a value shift in our society (which I think we are starting to see) where art, social sciences, and the humanities are considered obsolete and useless.
A college diploma shouldn't be the new high school diploma, and the government shouldn't be dishing out grants and funding to everyone interested in getting one. It should be for those ambitious enough to have an end in mind.