Educated countries: Good or bad?

[Hellbound]

That's crazy, nail techs have much better employment opportunities than English majors. But I guess the world needs burger flippers who can quote Hamlet.

Reminds me of an advertisement for a sitcom I saw a few years back.

Doorbell rings, guy goes to answer it...it's the pizza delivery man.

Deliverey Guy (DG): That's $15 dollars and...hey, don't I know you?

Guy in the Apartment (AG): Yeah, we went to college together! What was your major again?

DG: Art History.

AG: Art History? What do you do with an Art History major?

(DG shrugs, gestures at pizza delivery uniform)

AG: Oh...yeah....

 

[fuelair]

Oh, I'm referring to the very Greatest of Britains.



The machines do all the work...it's cooking without skill

Something that's exercising me right now is the school's focus on training kids to pass exams rather than teaching them to think. Since the dockyard has been closed down bit by bit, my city is pretty much a university town (it used to be a polytechnic), and the freshers have arrived over the last couple of weeks. There is little that makes me despair for the future more than watching a person who is ostensibly bright enough to study for a degree completely fail to negotiate the self service check out in Tesco...

In the US, the claim is that we are teaching them to think, but the result must be doing well on tests that require picking the right choice (of 4 or 5 choices - i.e. the famous Multiple Guess Test), not on analyzing and making leaps of thought......

 

[drewid]

That's crazy, nail techs have much better employment opportunities than English majors. But I guess the world needs burger flippers who can quote Hamlet.

That goes for coherent film directors too.