Is it a consecuence of an outlived system (the industrial revolution pretty much settled the bases for modern education)? Is it resilence to change in the modern world?
Also, here in Spain we have a word "titulitis" ("degreeitis", as in an obsession with degrees). There seems to be such an obsession with degrees (and with more and more degrees) over actual knowledge, experience and/or innovation (not to mention how much of a business it is).
Is it time for education to change, even more considering the impact of information and communication technologies?
schools should teach art history very early on in elementary.
and
poor inner city students should be taught entrepreneurship.
and male students should be taught emotional intelligence
and female students should be taught architecture.
Liam Gomez
can anybody offer advice to a prospective History major? I go to an American school, focusing on Europe so far. I would ideally like to find a job in a museum, teaching isn't the top of my list but I believe I may enjoy it. I love history, but I am quite aware of how difficult it may be to find a job. Any sage advice would be appreciated.
Ethan King
>Why is education in such decline worldwide?
Because so much of education worldwide is simply indoctrinating people into adopting socialist views. I mean, look at what is taught in schools. In Australia, queer and gender theory are compulsory units for all high school students but mathematics isn't.
Camden Mitchell
Holy fuck. That was an interesting reading for a wikipedia article.
I'm surprised it recognises the situation instead of calling it a "conspiracy theory" or something
Jose Thompson
So... will the system collapse and forcefully reformed/restarted... or will we reach the point where a Post Doctoral degree will be an entry requisite to work as a bank cashier?
Lincoln Thomas
>can anybody offer advice to a prospective History major Don't. I had a friend who had a bachelors in history. He worked at sears unloading the trucks and stocking the shelves at nigh.
Xavier Roberts
my uncle has a bachelors in history and works at TIAA in a high level position so idk man I think it depends where you go, your social aptitude and luck/connections t. history major trying to figure out what to do now that I'm graduated
Asher Myers
Read this The system is screwed. It's not a "hurr useless degree xdd" thing.
t. Physics graduate who's unemployed
Jaxon Wood
>my uncle has a bachelors in history and works at TIAA in a high level position My father had a highschool diploma and worked for Grumman aerospace building airplanes.
It was a different time back then, a college degree and 2 years experience was not required for an entirety level job.
Aiden Turner
right now I don't really have any other choice. Failed too many classes to continue in engineering, History is my passion and I'm good at it. So that's where I'm at.
regarding I don't think I can even get into grad school, my gpa is shit. But teaching HS history or middle school history is something I can fall back on, right?
Kayden Johnson
Oh no no no, you don't have a MA in education. How do you, a history graduate, dare to teach history to children without having a cardboard that says that you are an educator? You monster! Think about the children!
Nicholas Evans
Your friend is apparently a fuckup who didn't realize that teaching is the singular application of a History degree.
Tyler Jackson
>I don't think I can even get into grad school You'll eventually want a master's degree if you want to make actual money teaching.
Adrian Green
>But teaching HS history or middle school history is something I can fall back on, right? Not really. My middle school history teacher was a math teacher first. My high school history teacher was the PE coach.
The truth is you don't need to know dick about history to teach it to kids. Even better if you don't because they want you to teach what's in the book, nobody will care if it's inaccurate.
If you must get a degree, id suggest you look at something in health and wellness, it actually has a lot of applications (various version of physical therapy) and you could fall back to teaching PE / History like my coach.
Jackson Lewis
Degree = money is what killed education
It's not anymore for the sake of enlightment or bettering the human being or humanity as a whole. It's just for materialism (whether you're in need or not).
That applies to ANYTHING. I know millions of people going to med school (or already doctors) who don't give a single fucking fuck about people health. They only think about money and nothing else. If they could submit everybody to unnecessary brain surgery for the sake of money, they'll gladly do (a lot in fact do it with stuff like circumcision, amigdalae surgery, etc)
People with actual passion or vocation are less and less. If the average Joe could make a living with picking potatoes, he wouldn't become a brain surgeon for the shekels and would let actual people who care do it.
Add to that the vicious cycle kept alive by employers themselves who have the same mindset and only help this thing going
Colton Thompson
College is a ponzi scheme desu
Noah Jackson
It's almost as if your entire worldview on academia has been shaped by /Pol/ telling you it's a SJW conspiracy to teach degeneracy and you haven't actually read what people are talking about in journals
Nicholas Richardson
You must be a literal faggot with an opinion like that.
Benjamin Sanchez
Dilution. Everybody supposedly needs higher education now and its highly profitable to provide it, so the standards are lowered to accommodate more cash flow.
Luis Bailey
internet, YouTube means tards can watch an hour video and proclaim to be an expert because they memorised some facts and took opinion as gospel. they can then reinforce their stupidity by copy pasta wiki pages. If you havent read 20-30 books on a subject area, you really no nothing except compared to someone who has never bothered to be interested before. "Quality is not an act, its a habit" as some bloke once said.
Luke Diaz
25 year rule
Evan Parker
A great reform is necessary definitely. Of course I don't know how precisely but a proper introduction to subjects such as philosophy (first sources) and the arts, and a branching out of education sooner than now are a couple of my ideas.
Justin Kelly
Any good books on the philosophy of education? I've only read Locke's essays
Aiden Stewart
We have an idiotic economy, that apparently requires a fucked up education-system to work.
Jaxson Evans
That's for history
Angel Morris
test
Jaxon Barnes
Brainlets are easier to enslave.
Alexander Price
What do you mean by this? Average IQ and literacy rates have been going up.
Austin Evans
>literacy rate the highest now then ever before globally >dude why is education on the decline lol
Eli Wright
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Elijah Myers
Its compulsory nature. Put anything on a conveyor belt and the producer will continue to mull how to simplify production for greater profit. In this case a cheaper, substandard version is actually more desirable since debt guarantees work like slavery never could and if you "educate" everyone so poorly that they're never sure of anything, their insecurity will push them to be in school, and thus debt, indefinitely.
Michael Collins
I hate to be a reductionist, but if you stuck to just absorbing Aristotle, Aristophanes and Pythagoras, you wouldn't do bad.
Gabriel Ward
What you call literacy is substandard and moreso every year. Look at the average text of any age group and tell me its not just recognizable and repetitive phrasing that signals broken and simple thoughts.
Robert Hill
-literacy rates >wut do u mean dis 4, m8, Ima enginur I am szientist >da patient haz da kancer ima gib him kemioterapy signed: dr Jones
-IQ Literally dropped in all western countries compared with the 20th century
