After sifting through about 100 tweets I found all of one engineering major and one nursing major. Anybody want to guess what the majority of degrees were?
Now if they spent the whopping $12 on this, they would have avoided $100,000 in student loans for a “Masters in Lesbian Poetry Studies.”
From the link:
“Women have earned more bachelors than men since ’82, more masters since ’87, and more PhDs since ’06. Every year.”
Now, you might think that statistic suggests that women are not oppressed and discriminated against in higher education, but (of course!) you would be wrong.
Well, women and logic dontcha know.
What woman with a degree just said?:
“My emails are so boring,” Clinton said. “What’s a few more?”
Future history doctorates will get Phds answering that question 🙂
If they think about it, faculty in engineering, business and the physical sciences are generally glad that their universities offer all sorts of * Studies programs. It gives the lunatics some place else to go rather than their classes.
And yet, civilization is still running on the muscle and sweat of men without university degrees, and will continue to do so. Let the darlings celebrate their useless degrees. It keeps them away from the important stuff.
And in Canada, a hell of a lot of those worthless degrees end up with useless government jobs.
This seems like a rather arbitrary and pointless attack on women. I scanned the Twitter feed and there are several doctors, Bsc degrees, engineering, but no economic degrees (thank God for that – the world certainly doesn’t need another useless economist, man or woman).
Government jobs that are worse than useless, they are damaging. At best a government job is only consuming tax revenue. Most involve actually doing things that interfere with other activity in the private sector, potentially constraining the freedom and development of private citizens who are paying for the government.
I skimmed through the twitter feed and saw quite a few good quality degrees, and only a few questionable humanities degrees. As much as anything else, it is an uplifting list of many women who are firsts in their families. I actually think that #WomenWithDegrees is a decent and positive line.
Fine produce from the Dark Mills of Academia, churning out credentials,at whatever price the market can bear.
Education,however will come to all,usually with a nagging debt and memories of wasted oppertunities.
I am happy for all those lovely young ladies, now they have their credentials…get a job.
As Jamie McMaster notes,most will seek government careers, partly due to their near total indoctrinization from the school of Government is Good.
Funny how good the bureaus are.. Good for nothing except restraining human nature.
Sadly most will put in 20 or 30 years of “Doing Good” never once seeing the damage they inflict upon those who foot the bills for their “help”.
Cannot cure stupid.
Educated beyond all intelligence keeps coming to mind.
I most admire people who actually CREATE and MAKE things, or maintain those things. There are far too many people in our society who actually work against productivity … read: government jobs. Yes, regulation is necessary … for public safety. However, our society has passed the tipping point where regulators far exceed the makers. It is dragging us down. Please pursue work that ADDS to our lives … not subtracts from it … as with EVERY so-called “environmental” degree.
The vast majority of them are useless degrees. The money would have been better spent on a technical college learning a trade etc. Also it seem the more useless the degree the more trashy the accompanying photos.
In theory there is no useless “education”. There are many strands in the rope of life. Life is a long journey, and a university degree is just another step. I have two degrees from university (Music & Education), two degrees from trade colleges (Computer programming and Auto mechanics), grew up on a working farm, spent years working as a CNC machinist, mason, finish carpenter, teacher, learned three languages, play about 20 musical instruments, made a small fortune in business, and at this point in my life, I realize, I am one of the three blind men in the room with the elephant.
https://www.khanacademy.org
https://www.udacity.com
Who needs bricks and mortar to get an education, other than a mason?
PS … my own son … who graduated from UCLA with a MATH degree … USED the Kahn Academy tutorials for some pretty esoteric math problems … WHILE he was a student at UCLA. He RAVES about Kahn.
I used to lecture to ALL of my 3 children that … “The sum total of all mankinds knowledge throughout history, is available with a few mouse clicks” … and that anyone who still remains ignorant … does so at their own will. It is so true. There is so much to do outside of “social media” and video games … but the vast unwashed masses are too fat and happy to care.
I almost wish I had twitter.
Someone should break up that estrogen-fest with a hearty “Show us your tits!”
an education, like Pee8chDee can be as useless as the person who holds it, David Suzuki comes to mind. I’v worked with quite a few PHDs and engineers, common sense among these types is not common. Most engineers should have to assemble and repair that which they design, then we’d see some stupid designs get filed 13 before they hit production stage. Formal education is much over rated in today’s world
Well, I think women with degrees are hot!
(Yes, it’s a weak joke, but you’ve got to allow me some latitude…)
True, if education is not useful in serving good ends, it is useful in serving evil ones. But looking at your own example I bet “…grew up on a working farm, spent years working as a CNC machinist, mason, finish carpenter, …, learned three languages, play about 20 musical instruments, made a small fortune in business, …” is evidence that you would have led a useful and prosperous life even without “…two degrees from university (Music & Education), two degrees from trade colleges (Computer programming and Auto mechanics)…” .
Ha ha ha ha ha ! I admire bomb-chuckers like you
Steve
You can be a Doctor in wymyns studies, a Doctor in Racial grievances, etc. I wouldn’t expect the SJWs in that Twitter feed to be fully informative into what kind of doctor they were.
If they don’t say MEDICAL, you have to wonder……
“… then we’d see some stupid designs get filed 13 before they hit production stage.
Could that be related to the fact that over the past 50 years I’ve seen more cases of beer being carried out of LCBO stores by Engineer students than any other discipline?