“My main complaint was how could Coursera, presumably one of the spearheads to eliminating the evil known as “Big Education,” succumb to offering such worthless, evil, and parasitic classes to the easily duped students of today? How could an entity that knows it’s origin is founded in the noble purpose of making education cheaper to students, turn around and sell naive teens and 20 somethings this poison that has ruined the lives of millions? Lila Ibrahim, and the executive staff of Coursera should be ashamed of themselves for dealing what is nothing more than the addictive mental drug of worthless degrees.
But then I received an e-mail.”
The peddling of useless degrees has been going on for decades.
When I was an undergrad studying mechanical engineering more than 40 years ago, the running joke was that if one dropped out of that department, one could always get an arts degree.
Later, when I was a grad student, the degree of last resort was a B. Ed.
Well, You summed it up in the last paragraph. Bricks and mortar will never be threatened by on-line ed. I mean, how would you ever be able to recreate the valuable experience of marching for safe spaces?
STEMinistas appear to make the best comrades, and part of their subservience is a failure to understand that they are comrades.
One who really wants a degree from a state university can get a complete degree for around maybe $5,000 or less. Three schools allow you to earn credit for very little from approved cheap sources and transfer 38 or 39 courses out of 40 to into the school. These are Thomas Edison State University in New Jersey, Charter Oak State College in Connecticut, and Excelsior College in New York. You don’t have to end up $100,000 in debt for your women’s Studies degree. They are not going to have Ivy League respect but they will have as much respect as any other state college nobody has ever heard of.
Spend a week or two reading old threads and on this website and you will be educated.
http://www.degreeforum.net/
early 70s I started correspondence studies with Waterloo U. a sociology course to test the waters. it worked out and then I switched to economics major until my new boss gave me a wtf buff, take something worthwhile. so I switched again to computer science. one thing led to another, but it all started with some humanities courses.
education is necessary to keep ones head above water. like LEARNING how to swim. it should NOT be seen as a free ‘life jacket’. a comment in the link bemoans the enormous cost of books, suggesting ebooks instead.
I say let the market decide who and how many opt for this scheme. isnt that the way its supposed to be? that part I learned from the 2nd year economics courses I took.
in a nutshell I CHERRY PICK a LOT.
For a lot of positions today, a university degree is a ticket. What was actually learned is irrelevant. Possession of the ticket is the qualification that gets you in the door not unlike lots of Alberta oilfield workers who need a pocket full of tickets to get on a worksite but are still clueless retards.
But, but, but … Captain!? If “academia” is destroyed … then how will presumptive Democrat Presidential candidates receive $millions in “speaking fees”. How will the Democrat candidates receive their “laundered” taxpayer funds for personal and political use ?
In a related story … The NETFLIX series “Ozark” is simply fabulous. Just spent a weekend binge-watching it. Speaking of money laundering.