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Posted on 05/03/2025 10:18:28 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
College graduates are calling their degrees worthless. According to new data from Indeed, piling student loans and fears of AI reshaping the workplace are to blame. While experts say higher education is still important, Gen Z should constantly prioritize “upgrading their toolkit” to be successful. College is often advertised as the best four years of one’s life, but many Americans now have regrets.
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One look at the AI responses to queries on Google shows that AI is bogus!
seems a shame to NOT sue the universities for fake advertising.
We need more and more Trade Schools.
They say that blaming others for one’s own poor decisions or on just plain bad luck are signs of emotional maturity.
At least half of those degrees were worthless BEFORE AI.
The reason for education is to develop a good “BS Meter”, and believe me, with AI, people are going to need it.
BS Meter=critical thinking skills.
In my previous post, maturity=immaturity.
Well, some—but not all—degrees are worthless!
So what?
What some of these people don’t understand is that college teaches you a lot more than you are going to learn from A1.
If you believe that college is just about the text books and tests…you are missing the point of a college level education.
BS Meter=critical thinking skills.
Precisely.
With the advent of AI, the most valuable thing one can learn is how to frame a question.
AI and robotics will replace huge numbers of tradesmen in the next two decades. Laborers will be needed to work but in everything from car mechanics to house building, technology will replace many skill positions. Portable robots being developed right now that take an architectural plan and cut every wooden part, pipe, wire etc right to specs. Low skill laborers will put it together like a model.
Critical thinking; working with others; social interaction; as they call it…”adulting”; basic survival skills….all within an environment that won’t ruin you when you make mistakes.
Oh yeah…I took a stats class and a taxation class which served me well. Financial analysis was a good one as well.
With the advent of AI, the most valuable thing one can learn is how to frame a question.
If only Alex Trebek could have lived to see it.
Having been to both trade schools and earning a science degree in computer science,
I’ll add this observation, select a trade and education that is difficult but rewarding.
Most people are lazy. Teaching degrees for K-12 are easy.
Law degrees are easy, just to name a few. So where do a lot of people gravitate to?
My nephew is working on going into a trade.(plumbinhg) He is attending classes, I think college, for the certificate/math/whatever. He is math gifted and utterly bored because the class teaches down to the dummies.
I find it sad that Harvard is fighting against Trump's reduction or elimination of Fedgov tax-payer funding for a so-called "learning" institution that has some 50 billion stashed away through endowments. I've read those endowments are even more than the 50 billion I just mentioned.
I don't know how it exactly works, but Harvard also has all the yearly tuition money coming in...which is outrageous for what they now teach and push. The one positive thing I've read is Harvard's Law School is still one of the best in the World. But then, do we really need more lawyers? I've been suggesting for years to somehow shut down the Law Schools and let the massive amount of lawyers reduce by attrition. Of course, won't happen.
A good education requires gaining a lot of knowledge outside of the classroom. I learned most of the history and geography that I know on my own. I could have gotten A’s in all my history classes without even opening the textbook.
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