Posted on 09/08/2013 8:07:06 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Many young men and women headed back to the classroom this week, equipped with texts on cultural relativism and stars in their eyes. They should enjoy it while it lasts. Those stars will turn to dollar signs not long after graduation day, when the realization sets in that that medieval feminist studies degree is not as marketable as they had anticipated.
The problem isn’t unique to those who have chosen to pursue so-called “soft” degrees. For years now, graduates of teachers colleges (especially in Ontario) have found themselves with few job openings, as have journalism grads, some business majors and a growing cohort of law school alumni. In some industries, such as teaching, there is an oversupply of labour and too few job opportunities. For other fields, such as journalism, the stream of grads remains constant even though the industry itself is shrinking. And as for those equity studies and philosophy majors — unless they can flip that paper into a PhD and teach the courses themselves — they’ve long been looking at a career behind the counter.
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It’s terrible. They have skin as thin as phyllo. We have some younger kids in our IT shop who appear to be quite astute and bright when it comes to computers and systems, but if you try to correct them for doing something outside of best practice or even outside of corporate policy, they turtle up and spend the rest of the day Tweeting about how awful is their job and how their co-workers are big meanies.
The self-esteem movement started when I was in elementary school (circa 1990) with a program called “Positive Action.” As a 10 year old, I didn’t know or care what it all meant. They taught us Maslowe’s Hierarchy of Needs in high school health class, and it wasn’t until I was studying psychology in college that I realized the sort of damage this “self esteem” movement was doing to our youth. Self esteem, true self worth and introspection and respect for oneself, is one thing. What they were teaching was socialist “me-ism.” It’s all about “give me” and “I want” and “I need.”
Corporate America is becoming less American and more globalist, and I’m noticing that the IT workplaces are filled with young Indian, Chinese, and Korean kids while the Americans among us are getting older and not being replaced with American youth. There’s definitely a reason for that, I fear, and your commentary points it out very well, miss marmelstein.
Most ______________ Studies degrees train students for one thing: to be a teacher of ____________ Studies. Except those jobs are already taken by professors who know that they have nothing else to offer the job market and thus cannot leave their cushy positions.
She brought home a paper to show us shows some of the things she will be learning. And basically she will be learning the basics of cabinet making. Lap joints and Mortise and tenon joints, and Dado joints etc.
Plus all manner of hardware stuff like eye bolts and such. Plus she is to brainstorm a nontraditional way to connect two pieces of wood.
He states in the paper that these skills learned now will serve her down the road in all manner of endeavors.
I like this approach.
She already did a project where she had to take a straight piece of wood and make it curve/bend without using water or heat.
That’s not a serious sign, right? If it isn’t ‘shopped, it has to be from a counter-protest, right?
Yes, finding one you can stick with is not easy. We live in rural central Virginia, and this guy was my husband’s mechanic before we got married, 17 years ago. Before that, he and my father-in-law were friends. We got lucky. I wouldn’t want to have to pick someone out of the Yellow Pages.
(btw, for what it's worth about Hollywood actors, Mayim Bialik, who plays Amy on that show, actually has a PhD.)
I’m pretty sure it is photoshopped...the fonts are a little too neat. Still hilarious, though!
Of course in those days an education was designed to train a person how to think and act morally in their chosen field of work.
They then either went on to study law or went through divinity studies, so that they would become good judges and preachers.
Most education today is nothing like it originally was in this country.
That’s really interesting.
You forgot to add on Tibetan Yak chants. It’s a whole new study needed.
Although I hated at the time, the only self-esteem movement I remember was a nun banging my head against a wall for not understanding fractions.
Got it!
I think the UK still slots kids into certain schools after they pass the “O” levels - whatever that is. They then go on to different schools according to their abilities. John Lennon was slotted into art school which didn’t seem to hurt his earnings potential!
Earning an engineering degree was a piece of cake compared to what I actually do at my job. If I do ‘B’-grade work at my job, I don’t get a raise. If I do ‘C’-grade work at my job, I lose my job.
Those that can not do, teach.
And those who cannot teach, become politicians.
“I wonder what a journeyman machinist or tool & die maker makes these days. “
When I was in Grade School in the late Fifties, a LOT of High School boys did one half a day at the Public School, then left after lunch to go to the Trade School in the next district. Tool and Die Making was the most popular course. If the program still exists, it’s probably CNC based now.
Combine artistic skills with web design skills and you can make a living doing web sites for businesses.
“The real problem is that useful degrees are hard.”
I started college in 1969. I majored in science and medicine. It soon became obvious that the slackers who always had time to smoke pot and attend anti-war rallies were education and journalism majors. I have worked every year since I graduated in 1975.
There weren’t any of the totally useless libtard fields of study then as there are now. I refer to them as degrees in “rice pudding”.
A young person would do much better to go to a trade school and learn welding or auto repair instead of racking up $100,000 in debt getting some degree that qualifies them to work as a “barista” at some overpriced coffee shop.
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