I think, by the way, that you're right about the need for college, but I'm disturbed by your comment bere
Which gets back to a conversation in the car on the way back from Atlanta on whether college qua college has value. I say it does, because schools are failing to teach real thinking skills.
I think the problem you have when people get as far as college without thinking skills is that it's too late for them either to benefit from college or to develop those skills. I've just ducked out of a fruitless argument in another forum because the idea of social cost/benefit analysis was so clearly foreign to the people I was trying to have a discussion with; things had to be absolutes. It's expecting people to do practical mechanics with no toolkit.
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Date: 2011-09-13 07:05 pm (UTC)From:I think, by the way, that you're right about the need for college, but I'm disturbed by your comment bere
I think the problem you have when people get as far as college without thinking skills is that it's too late for them either to benefit from college or to develop those skills. I've just ducked out of a fruitless argument in another forum because the idea of social cost/benefit analysis was so clearly foreign to the people I was trying to have a discussion with; things had to be absolutes. It's expecting people to do practical mechanics with no toolkit.