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I used to think it was the attorneys... Now I think it’s those people who know how to use Excel too lolThe main problem with academia is there are too many administrators all of whom make too much money.
I used to think it was the attorneys... Now I think it’s those people who know how to use Excel too lolThe main problem with academia is there are too many administrators all of whom make too much money.
Of course. It's particularly difficult when you witness on a regular basis (because the kids are home taking courses online) the far end of the pendulum and the extremism taking place in regards to so many fundamental issues.Every generation thinks that the world is coming to an end “because of what is being taught” to their kids in college.
It will be fine. Our kids are smart and the pendulum swings.
What courses?Of course. It's particularly difficult when you witness on a regular basis (because the kids are home taking courses online) the far end of the pendulum and the extremism taking place in regards to so many fundamental issues.
*Disclaimer - having a home office is a blessing and a curse. Courses (for my 2 "First Years" as they're called because Under or Upper Class is discriminatory and Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior or Senior is also verboten) have ranged from Art History, Early Education, Babylon Berlin, Music and Culture (these last two were required tutorial classes), Biology, Chemistry, Sociology and Economics and oh ya, Fundamentals of Softball. Their school has split the semesters into two terms, ie; Spring 1 and Spring 2, with each being concentrated into 7.5 week terms.What courses?
So what courses were feeding the students extreme ideas? Was Fundamentals of softball teaching them Teacherman’s theory of hitting?*Disclaimer - having a home office is a blessing and a curse. Courses (for my 2 "First Years" as they're called because Under or Upper Class is discriminatory and Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior or Senior is also verboten) have ranged from Art History, Early Education, Babylon Berlin, Music and Culture (these last two were required tutorial classes), Biology, Chemistry, Sociology and Economics and oh ya, Fundamentals of Softball. Their school has split the semesters into two terms, ie; Spring 1 and Spring 2, with each being concentrated into 7.5 week terms.
I would guess that the the top 1% of engineers/scientists do 99% of the innovation and the US still is doing fine in generating the 1% in particular if we don't make it impossible for creative/bright foreign students to enter the country...To be honest a lot of the work that Engineers do could be done by a reasonably bright HS graduate who knows how to follow directions..The United States Colleges graduate only 5% of their student as engineers. China about 35%. Who's winning?