You are up to your eye balls in debt - and here is your "valuable" degree!
Posted on 05/20/2011 6:24:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
My high school German teacher used to say you had to go to college to get a good high school education. And that was in the early 1970s!
I wonder what he would say today.
the boomer generation raised their faculty salaries beyond
the worth of those jobs,
and later reduced their teaching loads from 3 to 2 courses,
thereby further reducing the worth of those jobs.
meanwhile ta’s do most of the work.
RE: My high school German teacher used to say you had to go to college to get a good high school education. And that was in the early 1970s!
I wonder what he would say today.
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1. Teaching Math in the 1950s: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
2. Teaching Math in the 1960s: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
3. Teaching Math in the 1970s: A logger exchanges a set “L” of lumber for a set “M” of money. The cardinality of set “M” is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make100 dots representing the elements of the set “M”. The set “C”, the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set “M”. Represent the set “C” as a subset of set “M” and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set “P” of profits?
4. Teaching Math in the 1980s: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5. Teaching Math in the 1990s: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.
6. Teaching Math in the 2000s: your call.
You are up to your eye balls in debt - and here is your "valuable" degree!
“The dream of Eric Holder’s people to enslave Whitey has come to pass! “
Except it isn’t the white students with the student loans as much as it is the black and hispanic students.
The blacks and hispanics are mainly exploited by the for-profit education industry. Kaplan, owned by the Washington Post, is among the worst. Without the profits they make on the backs of minorities with Kaplan, WaPo would have gone bankrupt long ago.
Colleges and universities, on the other hand, overcharge the white students to subsidize "scholarships" given to minorities, forcing them to take out loans.
PS - Student loans are the ONLY debt that cannot be escaped through personal bankruptcy. Obama in the past has talked about drafting people with student loans to do free government work. Sounds like slavery to me.
Gimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmetaxpayerswillpaythisgimmegimmegimmegimmegimme.
“Does Calculus change when taught at a university?”
Nope.
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