When I was in high school, I had a sociology teacher suggest that college was simply relationship breeding ground that kept young people out of the workforce for an extra four years. The point of this is that kids enter into 'stable' hetero marriages after 'maturing' in college while thinking they deserve the kind of cushy 'stable' jobs that serve to legitimize and reinforce the status quo.
It appears that he was right, no?
I always thought college was all about the credentials for most people. Interestingly, some ridiculously low percentage of grads actually work in their fields of study. That kind of proves the theory that undergraduate degrees are useless. I suppose employers can extrapolate, though, that the future employee is used to doing useless, pointless, tedious things that she or he hates and thus would be a good drone addition to the company.
It seems more like a business to me. The product is the illusion of acquiring an education. The consumers are the undergrads (funded by the undergrads' parents, who are also consumers of the product). Of course it centers on undergrads -- gotta keep the consumers happy and dumb or else your business fails -- and those mastermind grad students, prof.s, don't get the funding to continue their research.
You should totally fail all the undergrads in your classes out of spite.
It appears that he was right, no?
I always thought college was all about the credentials for most people. Interestingly, some ridiculously low percentage of grads actually work in their fields of study. That kind of proves the theory that undergraduate degrees are useless. I suppose employers can extrapolate, though, that the future employee is used to doing useless, pointless, tedious things that she or he hates and thus would be a good drone addition to the company.
It seems more like a business to me. The product is the illusion of acquiring an education. The consumers are the undergrads (funded by the undergrads' parents, who are also consumers of the product). Of course it centers on undergrads -- gotta keep the consumers happy and dumb or else your business fails -- and those mastermind grad students, prof.s, don't get the funding to continue their research.
You should totally fail all the undergrads in your classes out of spite.
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