So, I've only had this livejournal back for a day, and I already want to post a rant. Sorry if it offends anyone, because it most likely will
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Agreed because people don't get the same chances in life / discrimination and such / random problems Plenty of smart or otherwise awesome people go to every school.
BUT unfortunately the world sees it this way. If two people apply for a job, one with a Harvard degree and one with a Bunker Hill degree (extremes here), who are they going to hire? Unless there's some other connection like being related to the company somehow, Harvard wins. On average, they're probably correct and this is the best they can do.
Of course does this mean the Harvard people should look down on the Bunker Hill people? No. We're all still people and even if one person IS smarter/better at whatever, that doesn't make either person better than the other.
Also just because one goes to a specialized school for something doesn't mean they're getting an any more specialized education for that. It just means that that's all they're doing versus maybe expanding their knowledge in a couple other areas. As a liberal arts student I might be biased about this, but I like meeting people studying a variety of different things and having the opportunity to study whatever I want, even though I am 100% certain I'm doing science. I don't think that makes me any worse at science or my school any less competent at teaching science than a science or engineering school.
And grades, I mean, come on. Geez we covered this in psyc too: my teacher was talking about taking his grad school exams and he got one question "wrong". Well, wrong according to the test makers, but not in principle. It was something along the lines of "which doesn't belong: squash, golf, hockey, or . . . " ah well I can't remember it but one answer was squash and the other was golf. I forget who said which but basically tests often don't ask for one's reasoning and there can be more than one answer to the same question.
Unfortunately this entire stereotype thing creates inferiority complexes in the people on one end and superiority complexes in the other. We must resist!
Plenty of smart or otherwise awesome people go to every school.
BUT unfortunately the world sees it this way. If two people apply for a job, one with a Harvard degree and one with a Bunker Hill degree (extremes here), who are they going to hire? Unless there's some other connection like being related to the company somehow, Harvard wins. On average, they're probably correct and this is the best they can do.
Of course does this mean the Harvard people should look down on the Bunker Hill people? No. We're all still people and even if one person IS smarter/better at whatever, that doesn't make either person better than the other.
Also just because one goes to a specialized school for something doesn't mean they're getting an any more specialized education for that. It just means that that's all they're doing versus maybe expanding their knowledge in a couple other areas. As a liberal arts student I might be biased about this, but I like meeting people studying a variety of different things and having the opportunity to study whatever I want, even though I am 100% certain I'm doing science. I don't think that makes me any worse at science or my school any less competent at teaching science than a science or engineering school.
And grades, I mean, come on. Geez we covered this in psyc too: my teacher was talking about taking his grad school exams and he got one question "wrong". Well, wrong according to the test makers, but not in principle. It was something along the lines of "which doesn't belong: squash, golf, hockey, or . . . " ah well I can't remember it but one answer was squash and the other was golf. I forget who said which but basically tests often don't ask for one's reasoning and there can be more than one answer to the same question.
Unfortunately this entire stereotype thing creates inferiority complexes in the people on one end and superiority complexes in the other. We must resist!
anyways . . . my various thoughts . . .
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