re: Trump’s plan for student loans is solid

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Just more evidence you don’t understand the buzzwords you are using

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Uh-huh.

Focus on helping yourself and try reading that definition one more time. Real carefully. When risk is removed and individuals are protected from the consequences of their actions, moral hazard is created. Not lost.

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Its in the plan

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And my response is still:

frick. No.

A century ago, universities recruited from a small group of elite and well educated students. As a consequence, they were fairly brutal.

They did produce astonishingly smart men though.

Our decision to expand our university system changed that. Colleges dropped standards to accommodate an influx of people who were less prepared, but also, simply, less capable.

The people who could benefit from academic brutality, they no longer get it. And the rise of pseudo sciences, academically suspect majors has only worsened the situation in higher education.

That’s a very, very different argument than saying we use too much technology

Technology is part of the problem. As the quality of education has declined, which is to a degree inexorable, we’ve focused on adding technology rather than looking at the substantive issues.

Can technology improve the quality of education? For he most part, no, not all. And any time and money is simply a waste.

It’s only useful in technical fields. Such as commerce, math, or the sciences. And there it is both a time saver and functional prerequisite.

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A century ago, universities recruited from a small group of elite and well educated students. As a consequence, they were fairly brutal.

They did produce astonishingly smart men though.

Our decision to expand our university system changed that. Colleges dropped standards to accommodate an influx of people who were less prepared, but also, simply, less capable.

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I see your point but they didnt lower standards out of kindness.. they wanted to expand their customer base and lowering the standards created that influx

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I see your point but they didnt lower standards out of kindness.. they wanted to expand their customer base

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I would absolutely agree. I think there’s a societal cost though.

My primary focus is foreign policy and the people working in the field - it’s bad. They don’t read or speak the languages. And they don’t know the histories of these peoples. They also don’t appear to be particularly interested in rectifying these problems.

They don’t understand how little they know.

The old men, who admittedly have the advantage of experience, are qualitatively better. And I think a lot of that has to do with receiving very rigorous educations.

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Nearly every field that we want people pursuing is a tech field. Engineering, accounting, economics, mathematics, biology, marketing, etc; nearly all science and business careers are heavenly integrated in technology now.

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Meh. You don’t really need tech for basic engineering concepts. You don’t learn heat transfer and fluid dynamics by using CFD software, for example. That’s backwards.

I see it a lot. People that know how to use software to create completely incorrect answers to problems because they they don’t understand the underlying concepts the software is using.

They sure make pretty pictures though.

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The degrees that aren’t tech heavy are the gender studies and literature degrees that we want people moving away from.

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Seems like removing the subsidies would be more effective than buying nicer facilities for those degrees.

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but if they are ignorant on those core topics.. what did they learn?

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I took some of the same classes, per major requirements.

One was a 12 person seminar on Insurgency. The syllabus looked great, TE Lawrence, Mao.

Unfortunately, we spent most of our time reading poly sci papers.

Here’s an example.

Lawrence talks about the ideal environment for a counter insurgent. It’s a desert Island. It’s surrounded by water, so resupply is difficult. And it’s a desert, so there’s no natural cover. What is the ideal environment for an insurgent? A jungle, close to the border, with a safe zone just on the other side of the line, where you can rest, train, and reequip.

It’s all deadly simple and something you can communicate with just a few words. It’s also something that seems almost unnecessary to write, because it’s so obvious.

This damn paper was 18 pages of inscrutable academic language, and graphs. Lots of graphs.

They had taken a simple idea, and obscured it behind thousands of words, and pictures.

What the professor wanted us to do, was to understand Lawrence’s point, but more importantly, to be able to write a similar paper.

This is the sort of material they spend their college careers studying.