If your priorities are what they ought to be, an education is of far more value than job training, for an education adds value to your everyday existence. It allows you to think above the pack, to not be gulled by fashionable charlatans, and to live a more fulfilled life with a minimum of boredom. Liberal arts are highly recommended by this old electrical engineer.
I good university allows you to get a degree in a useful career field while taking electives that interest you. My path to an engineering degree included a course in Scandinavian Mythology.
2n2222: Mainly you learn how to learn. That is a very useful skill if you should end up on some blacklist and you can rapidly teach yourself a new trade. I have no difficulty understanding why someone might be petty enough to try to kill a whole family by starvation on their blacklist, but why would a competitor obey the blacklist instead of finding out the reasons?
My father teaches college biochemistry. He is teaching engineers, nurses, pre-med, future pharmacists, future forensic scientists, and people going into environmental science (figuring out how to help the polluted lakes and oceans, not just climate change, for the record) He teaches things for the specific field (and tries to figure out why the football people are recommending all their students be engineers, based on math skills, not happening for all but 1 so far). But even the skills not related to your future plan teach you how to think, how to analyze, etc. Knowing my illness would not allow me to work (was half-time, still missed a lot of classes and had to work with profs and use disability services) I didn’t get the teaching degree with my history major/psych minor, but I know how to analyze and combine large amounts of written material and how to tell people the skills I used to earn that degree
kinsler33 about 9 years ago
If your priorities are what they ought to be, an education is of far more value than job training, for an education adds value to your everyday existence. It allows you to think above the pack, to not be gulled by fashionable charlatans, and to live a more fulfilled life with a minimum of boredom. Liberal arts are highly recommended by this old electrical engineer.
Retired Dude about 9 years ago
Yeah, but job training allows you to eat.
P51Strega about 9 years ago
I good university allows you to get a degree in a useful career field while taking electives that interest you. My path to an engineering degree included a course in Scandinavian Mythology.
jonnijones about 9 years ago
Yes. My degree is in Business/Accounting but I took as many liberal arts electives as I possibly could. It was wonderful!
hippogriff about 9 years ago
2n2222: Mainly you learn how to learn. That is a very useful skill if you should end up on some blacklist and you can rapidly teach yourself a new trade. I have no difficulty understanding why someone might be petty enough to try to kill a whole family by starvation on their blacklist, but why would a competitor obey the blacklist instead of finding out the reasons?
kattbailey about 9 years ago
My father teaches college biochemistry. He is teaching engineers, nurses, pre-med, future pharmacists, future forensic scientists, and people going into environmental science (figuring out how to help the polluted lakes and oceans, not just climate change, for the record) He teaches things for the specific field (and tries to figure out why the football people are recommending all their students be engineers, based on math skills, not happening for all but 1 so far). But even the skills not related to your future plan teach you how to think, how to analyze, etc. Knowing my illness would not allow me to work (was half-time, still missed a lot of classes and had to work with profs and use disability services) I didn’t get the teaching degree with my history major/psych minor, but I know how to analyze and combine large amounts of written material and how to tell people the skills I used to earn that degree
hippogriff about 9 years ago
Night-Gaunt49: “Overqualified” is code for “that one might be a threat to my cushy job”.