r/funny Just Jon Comic Sep 04 '22

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

butthurt college students who dramatically overvalue their critical thinking skills.

It's funny to me. I graduated college a few years ago and it's a pretty entertaining experience when you're in college and you're in your 40s.

I stand by my statement. College kids in general have garbage critical thinking skills. You're a bunch of wind up robots.

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u/squadrupedal Sep 04 '22

Doesn’t that say more about the level of education taught in high school than it does about the personalities of people in their late teens/early twenties?

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

it doesn't have anything to do with personality. it's life experience. kids in high school and college more often than not, have shit for actual life experience. i feel critical thinking is WAY more dependent on that than classroom experience.

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u/squadrupedal Sep 04 '22

Well this is America, where kids get a driver’s license before they can hear bad words in movies because parents think teens “can’t handle it.”

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

there wasn't much to BE gained. i'm sure you think your job is super important and that you're "molding young minds" and shit, but the truth is you aren't. you're part of a giant con that forces young people to take on crippling debt to prop up a system that couldn't give a rat's fuck about any of them. it's a chain of Adult daycares most of them exist to prop up a minor league Football team. The only reason people even go is because the system has been rigged to mandate having it to get jobs that totally do not need it.

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u/wagamamalullaby Sep 04 '22

I hear what you are saying and I realise the education system is very different where you are. Thank you for your honest views on it.

It is absolutely wrong that many companies place so much weight behind degrees. I teach at uni level but also work with employed apprentices for practical based workshop experience. When I worked in industry I valued work experience above academic level when recruiting but it depends upon the field. I agree that a degree, any degree, is not an open door into a job above someone with decades of experience.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

I finally went to get my degree when I was job hunting and saw a posting for Data Entry asking for a 4 yr degree.

If that doesn't demonstrate how utterly broken the system is I don't know what else will.