The only degrees worth having.
“It’s virtually impossible to become competent in technical disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, and medicine without rigorous university training.”
Is that why we’re facing a shortage of the sciences and engineering? Because rigorous university training is so difficult to find?
It is simply impossible to engage in most any discipline such as........without a book full of green stamps. Have Mom and Dad pay up or borrow and stiff the taxpayer. But you must get a party card, check your head at the door, stfu and sit there until you are told to go.
“It’s virtually impossible to become competent in technical disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, and medicine without rigorous university training.”
The author’s point is that you should be able to get all of that technical training at a school that doesn’t require all the humanities courses to ‘round you out’ as a human being.
“It’s virtually impossible to become competent in technical disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, and medicine without rigorous university training.”
As a student who will be graduating with a BS in mathematics in December, and who has already been accepted to my university’s doctoral program, I can say that that’s bulls**t.
Yes, the university instruction is necessary, but ONLY in the particular field of study.
Try and find an undergraduate program of study in mathematics at any university in the nation that only involves math classes. That course of study would only last about two years (maybe more if the student hadn’t started calculus in high school). The rest of the courses I’ve had to take, with the exception of two elective philosophy courses (symbolic logic and metaphysics) had absolutely no effect whatsoever on my mathematical competence.
The OP is correct. The University model is a scam. It forces students who are seeking what is essentially vocational education to take useless filler crap courses in order to pad the pockets of the professors who teach bulls**t.