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Originally posted by blackmercedes
I had to have a good laugh when I read the title to this one.
I did for a long time. I worked in my "field" after graduation for many years. Not now. Never again.
However, it makes NO difference. There is NO SUCH THING AS WASTED LEARNING. Anyone that says so is a moron and doesn't deserve school.
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I argue that some types of learning are better than others (cue for a fight ). I resent some of the crap I have to trawl through at work, when I rather be learning something else.
One could even argue that some 'learning' is worthless if it gives a distorted balance of the world, ideas from a limited perspective. Reading religious books ad nauseum lies in this category for me.
And the general dumbing-down of University as more and more of the population is processed, under the banner of 'access for all', means that kids are doing mickey mouse courses with no real challenging content or degrees which amount to little more than technical training. I'm in favour of reducing access to higher education to a lower level, rather than expanding it, for the reasons above and also because the 'value' of a degree as a measure of acheivement is eroded by levelling down.