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	▲	irishcoffee 17 days ago
		Seems to me the venn diagram of "congress and c-suites" vs "educated people" would have one circle wholly inside the other. I know people without a college education that would give you the shirt off their back, and educated people that rewrite wills while their parents are on their deathbed. What we call education today is a problem, and one need look no further than the massive amount of debt we saddle on kids. For what? So they can pay for privilege of being told what books to read, what topics to write about, and a rubber stamp? I didn't learn a _thing_ in college that I haven't learned better either at $dayjob, or from reading. Most of my math profs. didn't speak english well, and none of the TAs did. Any math I've since forgotten from college was self-taught. Calc i/ii/iii, diffew, linear, stat. College/education lost the plot. The sooner we admit it, the sooner we can fix it.
	▲	ninjagoo 16 days ago \| parent [-]
		`> Sadly, education does not correct psychopathic traits, which might be overrepresented in c-suites, and selected for in politicians. >> Seems to me the venn diagram of "congress and c-suites" vs "educated people" would have one circle wholly inside the other.` Both things can be true. `> look no further than the massive amount of debt we saddle on kids.` See politicians and c-suites populated by psychopaths for the origins of this problem. `> I didn't learn a _thing_ in college that I haven't learned better either at $dayjob, or from reading.` Putting it a bit bluntly, like any other activity, one gets out of it what one puts into it. I had a very different experience from yours, accents and language skills notwithstanding. But there is so much variation in a domain so broad in our country that is so big, it doesn't necessarily invalidate your experience. `> College/education lost the plot. The sooner we admit it, the sooner we can fix it.` There is a long list/tradition of higher education through thousands of years of human history, with Harvard/MIT/Oxford being the pre-eminent ones today. [1][2] What alternative do you propose? For humans, and AI? `[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_higher-learning_institutions [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation`