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by shortrounddev2
875 days ago
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> As for the first part, yeah we could have amazing teachers and amazing researchers and amazing administrators rolled into the same person but, bear with me, it might be viable to have different people do many of those roles. I agree: researchers should not be hired to teaching positions because they are good researchers. Teachers should be hired based on their ability to teach. I don't mind the idea of teaching yourself; I think education should actually have LESS lecturing because I don't think it's an effective means of knowledge transfer. My problem, though, is that you PAY to be there for the lectures (sometimes specific, world renowned lecturers) and then they can't even be bothered to show up for work. Then they just throw around some bullshit about how it's the student's responsibility to do the work and teach themselves. I would buy this if the student wasn't paying so much. It straight up does not cost that much money to provide a library and resources to a student to teach themself things: local communities do this on a shoestring budget all the time. Colleges cost so much in part because of the salaries of people who don't give a fuck about their jobs and somehow consider it a VIRTUE to not show up for work. College professors are some of the most entitled, lazy pricks I've ever met |
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A world renowned research university- let’s call it Barvard, hires brilliant researchers who invent amazing technologies and win prizes. That’s great. And the richest people on the planet try send their kids there. I mean the small airfield next to Barvard is solid with private Lear jets at every commencement ceremony weekend. And that’s what is being paid for. Some bright kids will get scholarships. But Barvard is only affordable to people who also have Lear jets because people who have Lear jets want their kids to go to university with kids of other people who have Lear jets. So the prices get jacked up so much because there are only so many places.
The point of elite university is to give elites access to each other.
Fund universities as we fund schools. Remove charity status. And require research universities and Ivy League to never allow students from the top 1% of wealth.