controversial opinions about college

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Anonymous wrote:College might be your only chance to study Gregorian chant or read Tolstoy or ask yourself whether you believe in utilitarianism. Go for it. Smart, realistic, self-aware people with a good work ethic and strong critical thinking, research, and writing skills will figure out a way to make enough money -- and maybe even have some fun doing it.

You’ve got this backward. Smart people will figure out a way to “study Gregorian chant or read Tolstoy or ask yourself whether you believe in utilitarianism” without paying $300,000 for it. They will go to college to make enough money to make that $300,000 education pay off.

The days of “go to college to acquire knowledge for its own sake to make you a better person” are long gone. The humanities and liberal arts departments that sell that line of propaganda have priced themselves out of the market.

Something tells me that a “smart” person like you has yet to figure out a way to study the humanities at no cost. But maybe you should give it a go; it will make you a better person — and certainly a more thoughtful one.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're old enough to go in the military, you should be allowed to drink alcohol.

I don't think you should be allowed to go to war zones or fight directly with guns for your country at 18. Brain isn't fully developed yet, and all that. You can go through basic training and work other jobs within the military.

It doesn't work that way, especially in the Marine Corps. Every Marine is a rifleman.

You can learn HOW to use, but I'm saying you shouldn't be allowed to go to front lines, to fight, at such a young age.

You are stupid. Every war ever fought, and every war ever won, had armies that predominantly had men age 18-22 in the front lines. Their brains were self-evidently well developed enough for combat. And a lot of those men enjoyed it.

I certainly don’t want my kids doing that but that doesn’t mean “it shouldn’t be allowed”.

You don't say? 19 year olds who spent over a decade playing violent video games enjoyed putting on camo and bringing their video games to life? Who would have thought. Just because you enjoy something doesn't mean it's good for you or you were intellectually developed enough to make the choice to do it.

Young men enjoying war is THOUSANDS of years old, it did not start with the violent video game generation, nitwit.

I don't think the homeless, mentally ill vets on the streets with PTSD are enjoying themselves after they get out of the military and finished killing people.

They are in no way representative of the millions of men who have gone to war for thousands of years.

You mean the millions of men who sat in a chair in a dark room and terrorized their families because there was no mental health help, PTSD hadn't been defined yet, and vets can't get to help they so desperately need so they pretend they're fine while drinking away their daemons? Yeah, sure Jan.

[Anonymous]

That men are more inclined to want to study STEM and women are more inclined to study liberal arts, and that’s okay. I know this is controversial but I’m old and have known lots of adults and lots of children.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're old enough to go in the military, you should be allowed to drink alcohol.

I don't think you should be allowed to go to war zones or fight directly with guns for your country at 18. Brain isn't fully developed yet, and all that. You can go through basic training and work other jobs within the military.

It doesn't work that way, especially in the Marine Corps. Every Marine is a rifleman.

You can learn HOW to use, but I'm saying you shouldn't be allowed to go to front lines, to fight, at such a young age.

You are stupid. Every war ever fought, and every war ever won, had armies that predominantly had men age 18-22 in the front lines. Their brains were self-evidently well developed enough for combat. And a lot of those men enjoyed it.

I certainly don’t want my kids doing that but that doesn’t mean “it shouldn’t be allowed”.

Oh, I see. So that is for other people.

Why not? They might "enjoy it."

There are lots of things they might enjoy that I don’t want them doing.

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Where you go is overrated. What you do there is more important.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should have no involvement in college application process.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should have no involvement in college application process.

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Yeah, that’s real smart, you tell them what time to be home and what to wear, but don’t have any involvement in the first big consequential, expensive decision they will ever make. That makes a lot of sense.

That’s sarcasm, of course. It’s incredibly stupid. It’s a family expense and a family decision, and good family work together to make good choices and help out.

[Anonymous]

Affirmative action in admissions stokes animosity on campuses. The affirmative action admits feel stupid and isolated and then they get angry. It’s cruel to admit below bar kids in the first place — they would be far happier at a college with similar acuity peers.

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Anonymous wrote:Where you go is overrated. What you do there is more important.

+1. So you sent your kids to community college and then they transferred to the local commuter university degree mill, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should have no involvement in college application process.

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Every time I see this I assume it’s a parent whose kids was redshirted, heavily tutored, and academically pushed. Telling everyone else to sit back and let natural selection weed our kids out of the good colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:That men are more inclined to want to study STEM and women are more inclined to study liberal arts, and that’s okay. I know this is controversial but I’m old and have known lots of adults and lots of children.

You do know that liberal arts includes: math, physics, biology, chemistry, economics, history, literature, psychology, etc.

STEM just refers to an integrative applications of the core scientific disciplines of science, technology, engineering and math.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should have no involvement in college application process.

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Yeah, that’s real smart, you tell them what time to be home and what to wear, but don’t have any involvement in the first big consequential, expensive decision they will ever make. That makes a lot of sense.

That’s sarcasm, of course. It’s incredibly stupid. It’s a family expense and a family decision, and good family work together to make good choices and help out.

My kids have three siblings--which are of course, part of "the family." I can't imagine any of my kids being part of a "family decision" on where their sibling goes to college.

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Anonymous wrote:Affirmative action in admissions stokes animosity on campuses. The affirmative action admits feel stupid and isolated and then they get angry. It’s cruel to admit below bar kids in the first place — they would be far happier at a college with similar acuity peers.

It’s even worse for the minority kids who would have gotten in regardless of affirmative action and yet are still stigmatized by people assuming they are less qualified.

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That while enigmatic, the college admission process does work in that largely, the elite kids get into elite schools, the next tier get into the next level down, and so on….. It night not be where they end up GOING as financials come into play, but the 2nd tier kids don’t get into elite schools on their own merit, and so really……. It all works out as it should

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That men are more inclined to want to study STEM and women are more inclined to study liberal arts, and that’s okay. I know this is controversial but I’m old and have known lots of adults and lots of children.

So, actually everyone knows this. What you are not addressing is why that is. Just because you know a lot of people, doesn't explain what the tendencies are attributed to.

I guess you're trying to say that girls just like to read! And boys like to build things! That's just what they like, yeah!

Because there is no such thing as patriarchy and historical disadvantage.

Yeah, we don't agree.