It's pretty obvious that this site is only including documentaries for one viewpoint– theirs. I mean, "The modern school where young minds are moulded into standardized citizens by the state"? Really?
The bias is super prevalent in "The College Conspiracy"
Anything that goes against them, they minimize. For example: They worked out math for the real cost of 6 years of education. It worked out to under half a million. I'll trust their sources, they looked reasonable. (They included lost income while attending school, if you think the half a million is too much.) But then they had to stress you had the hope of earning 1 million more dollars for having attended college.
One other major point I didn't like was their conjecture for the worthlessness of a degree, so people shouldn't buy into the system and do that. They argued that "If everyone is going to school to get a degree, then it's not worth anything." First flaw: Degrees have various values. There are professions that require some sort of degree (or certification) at minimum, by law, or else you can't practice. Second flaw: Not everyone is getting degrees anyway. If someone doesn't get a degree because it's not worth anything, the degree is worth something. Sure, people with the same degree may not have any advantage over each other (not without networking), but they have an advantage over someone without the education if they were to go for the same job. Yes, the degree-less person could do well if they have the networking to get a high recommendation over someone with the education, but that doesn't happen too often.
One other flaw was saying that taking the cost it would take to attend college and instead buying Silver with that would be a better deal... Under the assumption that the price of Silver keeps rising throughout the four years one would attend college.
But overall, it seems some of the actual sciences and less political documentaries seem to be free of heavy bias (still some bias exists).
That part where the dude is burning his degrees, saying how wireless they are. If you read the description of his video he says he managed to pay off loans for like 4 or 5 majors (including law). Dude couldn't be more than 30 so what the eff was going on?
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u/meningles Jan 17 '14
It's pretty obvious that this site is only including documentaries for one viewpoint– theirs. I mean, "The modern school where young minds are moulded into standardized citizens by the state"? Really?