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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why such disdain for those majoring in “vocational” degrees? I majored in accounting because as someone with few means, I needed something that would get me straight into a job. I didn’t have much room for error or creativity.[/quote]

They are telling us we are supposed to know our place.[/quote]

It's because posters on this site time and again show disdain for students who study the liberal arts, or more accurately the humanities. No one needs disdain the other. Everyone has a different path.[/quote]
It's kind of ridiculous to condescendingly call a STEM degree a "vocational school." An engineering degree imparts actual knowledge, just like a liberal arts degree.
 Yes, it may be different knowledge, but it's hardly inferior knowledge. I have a MA and a JD, but I doubt I would have made it through an engineering degree. [/quote]

It's vocational in the sense that it is job training. There has been ongoing tension with respect to whether education should be primarily about training young people for jobs or have a broader mission to prepare them to be more fully integrated humans and citizens. [/quote]
Is it, though? Do you have an engineering degree? I don't know that it provides training for any exact job. Would you call law law school vocational? You need it to be a lawyer (except for in CA), yet it doesn't really provide job training. [/quote]

Yes, I would call law school vocational. I'm a lawyer, fwiw. [/quote]

Agreed, except that most vocational schools provide more practical education as to the vocation. I’m also a lawyer [/quote]

I am a lawyer as well, and law school is definitely vocational training.[/quote]

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