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To: OldPossum

I think your missing the point badly. The point is why spend $50-200k for a degree in something like Czech language posted earlier.


136 posted on 05/14/2011 11:25:54 PM PDT by newbie 10-21-00
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To: newbie 10-21-00
I think your missing the point badly. The point is why spend $50-200k for a degree in something like Czech language posted earlier.

I haven't missed the point at all. Perhaps you do not understand the primary purpose of higher education. It is not--repeat, not--a job training experience though many colleges have become exactly that. It is a means to advance the understanding of one's place in the society in which we live.

That probably went by you too, so, let me elucidate. If properly administered via courses in Western civilization and the like, one comes to grasp the history of mankind, and more specifically, that of Americans and how we got to be here and the underpinnings of our political system. Exposure to higher education is a means of grasping the norms of society, the arts, the sciences, all that contribute to the desired output, which is a cultured, sophisticated person.

You, and those like you, see higher education as the means to a job. Fine, go to trade school.

And oh yes, higher education provides a means for you to learn how to read and write proper English. The third word in your first sentence should be "you're" (the contraction of "you" and "are"), not "your" which is a possessive pronoun. And as for the second sentence, well, look at those last two words. I gather what you are trying to say but it's presented in a poor fashion. You insult me, I insult you. I would think that that person who spent much money on a degree in the Czech language might have been combining what I tried to explain to you with the acquisition of the Czech language. If not, he or she did spend a lot of money to acquire something that could have been obtained from Berlitz.

All of this is written to tell you that college should not be job training. It has a higher purpose.

148 posted on 05/15/2011 1:04:44 PM PDT by OldPossum
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