If it keeps buttplant out, it was worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crafter
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If it keeps buttplant out, it was worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crafter
I don't think I've ever shopped at the Gap.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
So eliminating a major funding source (tuition) would help the underfunding? Holy shit. Why didn't the rest of us think of that!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Not unless you're a zombie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
It doesn't, Yoshi. It doesn't. It draws them in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Do you remember high school? It was barely useful or educational. To say that high school education is the best anyone deserves is like saying the best health care anyone deserves is some water and a couple band aids.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
And it most certainly is a bad thing to restrict higher education to only those who "deserve" it. You're all assuming that there is some sort of magical test or board of approval that will make sure that only the smartest (people like you) will get in. That does not, nor will it ever happen. Schools and test across the country are not uniformed. Many receive more funding than others. In such a situation it would be a very real scenario for poor minorities to be kept out of good colleges because their they can't score in the top 99% because of their poor high school background and that most certainly would not be due to any fault of their own.
This is only true for degrees that are mostly worthless in the first place. Some if not most of the best paying jobs require degrees that can not simple be paid for. lIf you have such a degree either it was worthless from the start (and that is why it was so easy to get) or your school short changed you by not making the program challenging.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
I really can't believe I'm reading this shit from a bunch of supposed liberals. Many of you have replaced financial superiority with "intelligence" superiority. Your opinions hinge on the assumption that you are the best and if the system changed, you'd still have gotten the education you got. That you would have naturally scored in the top 99% and gotten your free education.
How can you people ignore simple obvious problems with a system like this? It would actually hurt people from poor communities because they often receive the worst education prior to college. Many colleges around the country would close because each state would refuse to fund all of them. There would be less money for education than there is now, forcing possible enrollment to be limited and go down. Certain jobs would be limited to people that are good at school and not necessarily good at the job. There are plenty of people that can't take standardized test that are great at their job. You can't teach a lot of what doctors do in a college class room. Best does not always if rarely equals best GPA. But that is the nation that you want to build. A country full of boring assholes that spent their teen years at cram schools so they could get into a good school and get the education they wanted.
I'm from a poor neighborhood and I made it. Education is only useful if you actually give a fuck about it.
Well said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
I took Calculus, Physics, Marine Biology, etc. in high school. Most people don't get that in college.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Butt, it's absolutely trivial to normalize for test scores and the like in poor neighborhoods. First year stats student trivial. Even the worst schools have good students and colleges do look for them.