I do have gripes with the US education system ngl.
It is so pay-to-win, but if you’re not rich you can also get by if you complain-to-win, it just takes more effort.
There were so many people in my classes who would barely show up, or would hire people to take their exams for them. Had people chatting to each other during the final and the professor just looked at them like an NPC because he knew he had no power to fail them.
I had another course where they group project was like 75% of our grade, we had a member who contributed nothing, and the professor knew from the first status report that they weren’t contributing anything.
After the project grades came out, this person escalated it to the dean, and even with all the documented evidence of them contributing nothing, they were still pushed along into the system. It’s a bad look on the school’s stats if their 4-year graduation rate starts to drop.
Most universities in the US run like this, they just want money, either from admissions or donors, and they don’t care in the slightest about actually teaching their students, that isn’t their priority.
this only speaks to the credentialism side of things. obviously, the children of the wealthy are going to have it easier. they are going to have a leg into professional networks, they are going to have support, etc. formal education doesn’t impede that and i completely agree with the characterization of academia as more focused on revenue than service delivery, especially at the c-level. they are laying the ground work for a mass collapse of publicly-supported higher education. WVU writ large.
the US is not a meritocracy, but bullshitting one’s way through the actual, real opportunity for personal edification is legitimately one of the most short-sighted and wasteful things someone can do to themselves. like paying $20-30 to borrow a book from someone and pretending to read it while staring at nothing for 10 hours. x1000.
the way to approach higher education is recognizing the real opportunity to scam the institution out of more useful knowledge and personal/community contacts than what one gets with its most basic, minimum credential.
Maybe people wouldn’t be so gullible if they had some sort of, I don’t know, a formal education?
I do have gripes with the US education system ngl.
It is so pay-to-win, but if you’re not rich you can also get by if you complain-to-win, it just takes more effort.
There were so many people in my classes who would barely show up, or would hire people to take their exams for them. Had people chatting to each other during the final and the professor just looked at them like an NPC because he knew he had no power to fail them.
I had another course where they group project was like 75% of our grade, we had a member who contributed nothing, and the professor knew from the first status report that they weren’t contributing anything.
After the project grades came out, this person escalated it to the dean, and even with all the documented evidence of them contributing nothing, they were still pushed along into the system. It’s a bad look on the school’s stats if their 4-year graduation rate starts to drop.
Most universities in the US run like this, they just want money, either from admissions or donors, and they don’t care in the slightest about actually teaching their students, that isn’t their priority.
this only speaks to the credentialism side of things. obviously, the children of the wealthy are going to have it easier. they are going to have a leg into professional networks, they are going to have support, etc. formal education doesn’t impede that and i completely agree with the characterization of academia as more focused on revenue than service delivery, especially at the c-level. they are laying the ground work for a mass collapse of publicly-supported higher education. WVU writ large.
the US is not a meritocracy, but bullshitting one’s way through the actual, real opportunity for personal edification is legitimately one of the most short-sighted and wasteful things someone can do to themselves. like paying $20-30 to borrow a book from someone and pretending to read it while staring at nothing for 10 hours. x1000.
the way to approach higher education is recognizing the real opportunity to scam the institution out of more useful knowledge and personal/community contacts than what one gets with its most basic, minimum credential.