I dropped out twice before completing, as I continuously hit this wall: why am I learning to memorize things to pass exams when I can learn what I actually need? It took me years to understand that the degree was not about knowledge, it was a sign that I could withstand four years of bureaucratic nonsense. Employers are not concerned with what you studied. They are concerned that you can successfully jump through hoops Education as investment phenomenon is even darker than ROI calculation. We've pushed this so hard that teenagers are making $200k debt decisions with less information than they'd use buying a car. And they're doing it because we've made the credential mandatory for jobs that didn't require degrees 30 years ago. That is a reaction to artificial shortage we have made in the workforce The people who can afford to "learn for learning's sake" are usually people whose survival is already assured. Trust fund children have a chance to study philosophy. All other people are computing whether engineering is better-paying than nursing. That is no values problem, that is inequality manifested in educational decisions. When learning can be the difference between poverty and stability, naturally it is transactional
I dropped out twice before completing, as I continuously hit this wall: why am I learning to memorize things to pass exams when I can learn what I actually need? It took me years to understand that the degree was not about knowledge, it was a sign that I could withstand four years of bureaucratic nonsense. Employers are not concerned with what you studied. They are concerned that you can successfully jump through hoops Education as investment phenomenon is even darker than ROI calculation. We've pushed this so hard that teenagers are making $200k debt decisions with less information than they'd use buying a car. And they're doing it because we've made the credential mandatory for jobs that didn't require degrees 30 years ago. That is a reaction to artificial shortage we have made in the workforce The people who can afford to "learn for learning's sake" are usually people whose survival is already assured. Trust fund children have a chance to study philosophy. All other people are computing whether engineering is better-paying than nursing. That is no values problem, that is inequality manifested in educational decisions. When learning can be the difference between poverty and stability, naturally it is transactional

I dropped out twice before completing, as I continuously hit this wall: why am I learning to memorize things to pass exams when I can learn what I actually need? It took me years to understand that the degree was not about knowledge, it was a sign that I could withstand four years of bureaucratic nonsense. Employers are not concerned with what you studied. They are concerned that you can successfully jump through hoops Education as investment phenomenon is even darker than ROI calculation. We've pushed this so hard that teenagers are making $200k debt decisions with less information than they'd use buying a car. And they're doing it because we've made the credential mandatory for jobs that didn't require degrees 30 years ago. That is a reaction to artificial shortage we have made in the workforce The people who can afford to "learn for learning's sake" are usually people whose survival is already assured. Trust fund children have a chance to study philosophy. All other people are computing whether engineering is better-paying than nursing. That is no values problem, that is inequality manifested in educational decisions. When learning can be the difference between poverty and stability, naturally it is transactional

I dropped out twice before completing, as I continuously hit this wall: why am I learning to memorize things to pass exams when I can learn what I actually need? It took me years to understand that the degree was not about knowledge, it was a sign that I could withstand four years of bureaucratic nonsense. Employers are not concerned with what you studied. They are concerned that you can successfully jump through hoops Education as investment phenomenon is even darker than ROI calculation. We've pushed this so hard that teenagers are making $200k debt decisions with less information than they'd use buying a car. And they're doing it because we've made the credential mandatory for jobs that didn't require degrees 30 years ago. That is a reaction to artificial shortage we have made in the workforce The people who can afford to "learn for learning's sake" are usually people whose survival is already assured. Trust fund children have a chance to study philosophy. All other people are computing whether engineering is better-paying than nursing. That is no values problem, that is inequality manifested in educational decisions. When learning can be the difference between poverty and stability, naturally it is transactional