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Colleges Should Flunk If They Can't Train Students for Jobs

4 pointsby sylvainkalacheover 7 years ago

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dozzieover 7 years ago
People should stop think that higher education is training for <i>job</i>. It&#x27;s not. Vocational training and apprenticeship are training for job. Universities were never a proper environment for that. On the other hand, universities are an excellent environment for research and field exploration, which is virtually impossible in a typical job.
Top19over 7 years ago
Maybe companies should flunk if they can’t train workers for jobs. In the US there is a tendency to put pressure on the educational system for EVERYTHING. Eating healthy, sex, keeping our STEM knowledge competitive with the Soviet Union, training a 100% perfect labor force for businesses, etc.