Amen, a large part of collegiate education has become a cultural scam. The “college boom” (massive gov backed loan push) flooded state institutions with low preforming attendees, most of whom started going in the softball fields after the first few generations of New Age college students started explaining to younger attendees how “difficult” Real subjects are.
You used to meet college dropouts a decent amount, people who decided they couldn’t take it and/or didn’t want it. of course when schools realized that they were losing valuable tuition sources they specifically started telling teachers to go easier on the students so they wouldn’t drop out.
however it turns out that when you’re a C average student in a liberal arts major- whos requirements already been “tuned down” for your convenience - there’s really only one field that’s constantly growing and needs new blood in the job market: Adjunct professor ships.
if you’re not familiar with what an adjunct professor is, its a part-time teacher whos not skilled enough or notable enough for a full professorship. In the majority of college departments today, Especially in the “lower end” of schools, upwards of 60% of active faculty are typically adjunct because they’re amazingly cheap - few benefits, certainly no tenure.
so you have a group of people who are being actively exploited by a system that they were stupid enough to fall prey to, who have no useful skills outside of teaching the useless things they were taught, Who also have little to no job security so they are immensely pressured by the social system in academia to conform. (Tenure is supposed to specifically fight this).
Academic elitism used to be based off of the fact that the people in the school were -literally- smarter than you. The new generation of teachers has adopted the Ivory tower attitude but most of them are dumb as a bag of hammers. “Those who cant “teach” is more true than it ever has been.
Saw a perfect summary of the phd/master degree glut that is going on. In the 1940-1980s there were colleges opening everywhere. So it was a growing field. At this point though opening new colleges is kind of risky money wise. The problem now though is the top field is full. So like the Post Office you have to wait for someone to retire or die to get a primo tenure opening. Unless you are the best of the best and they make one for you. If you are that level you are not going into teaching you will probably land in some large think tank or large mega corp for good money and better hours.
In the 'office' field if you got a degree during that time you showed you had initiative and were willing to put in the extra work to get something done. Now the HR people have their pick of hundreds of candidates who will work for cheap and have a 'C' degree.
Amen, a large part of collegiate education has become a cultural scam. The “college boom” (massive gov backed loan push) flooded state institutions with low preforming attendees, most of whom started going in the softball fields after the first few generations of New Age college students started explaining to younger attendees how “difficult” Real subjects are.
You used to meet college dropouts a decent amount, people who decided they couldn’t take it and/or didn’t want it. of course when schools realized that they were losing valuable tuition sources they specifically started telling teachers to go easier on the students so they wouldn’t drop out.
however it turns out that when you’re a C average student in a liberal arts major- whos requirements already been “tuned down” for your convenience - there’s really only one field that’s constantly growing and needs new blood in the job market: Adjunct professor ships.
if you’re not familiar with what an adjunct professor is, its a part-time teacher whos not skilled enough or notable enough for a full professorship. In the majority of college departments today, Especially in the “lower end” of schools, upwards of 60% of active faculty are typically adjunct because they’re amazingly cheap - few benefits, certainly no tenure.
so you have a group of people who are being actively exploited by a system that they were stupid enough to fall prey to, who have no useful skills outside of teaching the useless things they were taught, Who also have little to no job security so they are immensely pressured by the social system in academia to conform. (Tenure is supposed to specifically fight this).
Academic elitism used to be based off of the fact that the people in the school were -literally- smarter than you. The new generation of teachers has adopted the Ivory tower attitude but most of them are dumb as a bag of hammers. “Those who cant “teach” is more true than it ever has been.
Saw a perfect summary of the phd/master degree glut that is going on. In the 1940-1980s there were colleges opening everywhere. So it was a growing field. At this point though opening new colleges is kind of risky money wise. The problem now though is the top field is full. So like the Post Office you have to wait for someone to retire or die to get a primo tenure opening. Unless you are the best of the best and they make one for you. If you are that level you are not going into teaching you will probably land in some large think tank or large mega corp for good money and better hours.
In the 'office' field if you got a degree during that time you showed you had initiative and were willing to put in the extra work to get something done. Now the HR people have their pick of hundreds of candidates who will work for cheap and have a 'C' degree.
Great to see someone with both knowledge and passion for the topic.