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This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk? (therealnews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1806644

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Colleges act like Scientology in the states. Equating education with how much money you've handed them.

Meanwhile anything can be learned online, but it counts for nothing because corporations treat purchases credentials as the only legitimate form of "education".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Ah yes, I'm sure the formal training received by doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, and engineers is just an over-hyped "education" that can all be replaced by online MOOCs.

There are real problems with education, especially with the costs, but "anything can be learned online" is the worst take I've heard in a long while.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Anything can be learned online, with enough drive and determination

But if you're that powerful: why bother learning from others? You could simply leave and create your own community called name's Gulch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No sorry, that's just fundamentally false. You can't just learn titration techniques from watching a video. You can't learn phlebotomy without an instructor watching you do it to a patient. Hell, you aren't learning how to drive a car from playing a video game.

And I'm not sure where you are pulling the "if you are that powerful" from. You really have an ax to grind don't you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

And I'm not sure where you are pulling the "if you are that powerful" from.

(The preceding comment was a parody of Great Man ideology)

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