> Agreed. A university is a place for learning how to ask questions, and it runs on curiosity.
This is a rather oversimplified, old-fashioned take on the purpose of university.
University in the 21st century is surely a straightforward high-stakes gamble, particularly in the UK and the USA: can I risk taking three or four years away from the job market, and go into life-changing, multi-decade debt, in order to gain qualifications that give me access to higher-than-minimum-wage jobs that I can get no other way, and will there still be enough of the kind of jobs mentioned in the prospectus at the end of it?
It is something that in most cases you can't afford to do and you also can't afford not to do.
This is a rather oversimplified, old-fashioned take on the purpose of university.
University in the 21st century is surely a straightforward high-stakes gamble, particularly in the UK and the USA: can I risk taking three or four years away from the job market, and go into life-changing, multi-decade debt, in order to gain qualifications that give me access to higher-than-minimum-wage jobs that I can get no other way, and will there still be enough of the kind of jobs mentioned in the prospectus at the end of it?
It is something that in most cases you can't afford to do and you also can't afford not to do.
I think PG is very out of touch.