| Mr Khan said: Huh, students holding Master's degrees usually fare better (just as bachelor's holders, on the balance, do better than high school graduates). I'll defend the value of a well-rounded liberal arts education to the death, however. I agree colleges should focus more on making sure their graduates get skills that are relevant in their field (interestingly in my field of International Relations, its only now in grad school that i'm getting courses that are teaching me actual skills. My stats class taught me SPSS, i had a course that taught me how to make grants, and another about humanitarian response procedures as well as a basic overview of public administration. Next semester i get policy analysis and development administration, for two), but at the same time we are not mere economic animals. The knowledge we command should be greater than what we need to survive. Of course, if you are the kind who learns better outside a classroom environment (i really don't, myself) then you certainly can make yourself intellectually well-rounded without having to go to college. |
Yeah it seems it's grad school where you finally learn actual skills that are worthwhile. Which is why I think they should cut off the first 2 years for a Bachelor's so you should be able to get a Master's more quickly.
I mean my first 2 years I can honestly use fingers from one hand to show how much I learned. Heck the professors hardly even teach anymore they just read off a Powerpoint slide and have you do homework online (if they give it) or the exams are just regurgitating info, rather than applying what you've learned. For example one of the most pointless classes I took was Psychology.... I mean psychology is so important and intersting but school made it so boring. I thought we were gonna do cool stuff like experiments and learn how to diagnose people but instead it was history and about the experiments. Yawn. Not to mention the professor was extremely boring and didn't look like he wanted to be there (to be fair, I am at a research university and teaching 300+ kids the basic of basics of psychology is pretty maddening).
But I think if we are gonna keep college the way it is (learn info and regurgitate it for tests) then they should just give us the test. We can learn everything online then take the test. Get a class done in like 2 weeks.
