A large part of that is the fucked up incentives of the univerisities themselves. I have a pet theory that they actively encourage student drinking and limit student access to helpful resources so large numbers of freshmen will wash out due to stress and trauma, allowing them to keep the huge amount of tuition money each semester while sorting for people who will more likely finish their degree without support from the university.
I went to a school that actively tries to expel people. The only positive I took away from that is it created a strong alumni network (not one I have access to, dropped out lol).
I guess there is a second positive, the strict honor code meant I could just leave stuff laying around (theft is an automatic expulsion). I almost immediately had my favorite jacket stolen when I left it on a chair next to my books in library when I went to a different school later.
bit idea: everyone has to work "unskilled" labor from 18-28, college is exclusively available to people aged 28+.
Yeah having my shit too not-together at 18 to go to college was a blessing. I ski bummed / did seasonal work for a couple years and it really helped me get my shit together for college.
Going to label this Ableist, because its the perfect wrench to throw into any theory of change.
I think that mandatory retail work after high school would drastically cut down on the abuse customer facing positions have to deal with.
Nah you want people educated as early as possible. Better to have some sort of curriculum that regularly rotates between the theory/classroom type of learning and the practice/hands-on type of learning. Part of that could be learning the value of important jobs you might never take.
Don't do americorps or teach for america, they're doing unionized work for free and undercutting people who need it to support their people.
There's other volunteer opportunities though! You can salt for a union! You can work for a shelter or charity! You can volunteer as s classroom aid!
It's less charitable but you can be a lift operators / rafting guide / backpacking guide and make no money but also not pay rent.
Yeah but also never underestimate how much is this just a CATO institute fellow being pushed back by her students on mere ideological grounds lol. Of course inmates who are literally handed a second chance would grasp it with all their might.
No student debt, no ideological intolerance, no religious tests—whoops, I mean mandatory “diversity” statements.
lmao these persons I swear to god
Prisons, famously free of people with debts, rigid ideologies, and religious beliefs.
I've been led to believe that prisons are famous for disciplining people with physical force if necessary and thus would respect any authority regardless of ideology but it seems I was mistaken...
Prisons host numerous competing ideologies by way of "prison gangs". And while violence is common, I don't know if I'd say "respect for authority" is implicit.
Reading Foucault and saying "yeah, sounds good!"
"The torment nexus was weak, smooth brain, small dick shit. We've invented the Torment Ultra-nexus, which blows way past whatever those losers were thinking"
I pay like $3000 to take a chemistry class. It has 250~ students. Any engagement I could have with the subject is limited by not wanting to be the asshole who holds up a village worth of people. Instead of adequately funding teaching staff and making smaller class sizes, they built a football stadium that they demolished a research lab for. That research field is the reason for the university's existence while its football team is terrible.
The main thing I've learned is that I hate American universities.
i read like 100 books. studied buddhism intensely. and if classes were offered i would have been all up on that shit. it's like living in a monastery and i was at a relatively lower security facility.
i don't recommend this experience
WSJ: "Everything is a moral hazard"
Also WSJ: "Currently, most young people find college preferable to prison. But what if..."
It makes sense that people stuck in a place that purposefully deprives them of sensory experiences (and ideas alternative to those presented in the classroom) are more interested in boring lectures and studying.
Seems like a bigger task to change the social and situational basis every student exists within (modern unbound western life) than making school more interesting to students.
Your other option is probably stitching together body armor or making shitty furniture for 8+ hours a day, I'd rather be in school.
Translation: "How can we further traumatize people out of education so we can get them into the workforce faster."
Thinking of writing an effort post about western education.
I really want to read what you have in that big beautiful rotating head, so I hope to get a ping as well :cat-com:
It should be funded with tax dollars - like prisons. College should be free of cost for all. They should maximize innovation and human potential.
