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My reasons are less wholesome.We subscribe to Christian websites to try and minimize the damage they are doing to society.
Can you give us examples of these "personal shipwrecks" caused by the packaging of modern education?
Lot's of failure stories involving huge student debt. Nationally it's over $1Trillion, with defaults rising.
Large dropout rates resulting in wasted time and money, degrees in fields that offer no jobs, cultivated elitism that prevents many from seeking 'ordinary' work, knowingly promoting success through higher education to many who don't have ability to learn at that level.
It's a humorous irony that higher education is promoted to the masses 'so they won't have to work at McDonald's, and that so many university graduates wind up working there anyway.
Of course the biggest failure is the deliberate deprecation of labor, even skilled labor, which is viewed with absolute disdain by 'higher' education.
Eliminate these weaknesses and we might have a pretty good system.
I don't agree that universities are responsible for the loss of skilled labor/ manufacturing jobs... those were lost to outsourcing to other countries where labor is cheaper. The reason these types of jobs aren't available in the U.S. is because they are now in China and India. People didn't abandon these jobs because they went to college... they were fired from them. If they wound up in college afterward, or their children did, it was indeed to avoid having to work at a minimum wage job which they can't raise a family on. It's a good example of capitalism at work, not elitism.
Of course. Capitalism at its best. Make people think that the only way you can succeed is to buy their product. In this case, it's a higher education.I didn't say they were responsible for the loss of these jobs, I said they look down on the working class. There was a time back in the 1960's when the term 'ignorant' was used for those who didn't have a college education. I think it must have been part of the mass marketing of higher education that began at that time.
Of course. Capitalism at its best. Make people think that the only way you can succeed is to buy their product. In this case, it's a higher education.
You market it right and you get people to go into debt to buy it.
Not elitism exactly. It's the marketing of elitism.
Of course. Capitalism at its best. Make people think that the only way you can succeed is to buy their product. In this case, it's a higher education.
You market it right and you get people to go into debt to buy it.
Not elitism exactly. It's the marketing of elitism.
Few of us get to have that perspective.
The level of usefulness may be even smaller than the number of observers.
You don't need a perspective from that distance. The next time you're in a plane at 35,000 feet or so, on a clear day, look out the window at the horizon. It's clearly curved. At an obviously greater arc than a 0.01% variation from the horizontal would produce. And no matter where over the earth you are, or whether you're flying north-south, or east-west, the horizon is curved the same way at the same altitude. You can see the proof directly with your own eyes.
Nope. .0125 is the correct % of change over distance.
That is approximately 8 inches of curve per mile.
Only a few human beings in the would would not call that flat.
Nope.
You've confused "obviously" with the correct "seemingly."
.0125 is the correct % of change over distance.
1/10th of 1%
That is approximately 8 inches of curve per mile.
Only a few human beings in the world would not call that flat.
Give any person a straight edge, of any length with that much curve
and ask them if it is flat.
Not quite sure what you're saying. But when I'm in a plane, I can definitely see the horizon is curved. Why would that be?
Another thing: Ever watch a cruise ship sailing away? If you're on the dock with binocs, you don't see the entire ship get smaller and smaller. You first lose sight of the hull, and then the superstructure, and finally the stack. That would only happen if it's curving away from you.
Just measured 4 Inches, their was about 6 inches change in elevation.
Not Flat.
So extend that ruler out 1 mile on the earth.
If you put an 8 inch block under the end,
then if will be flat and not curved,
like the earth is.
Not quite sure what you're saying. But when I'm in a plane, I can definitely see the horizon is curved. Why would that be? Another thing: Ever watch a cruise ship sailing away? If you're on the dock with binocs, you don't see the entire ship get smaller and smaller. You first lose sight of the hull, and then the superstructure, and finally the stack. That would only happen if it's curving away from you.
Even worse.
0.9 Miles, Total Elevation 2,267 Feet Change. Really Really not flat
Lot's of failure stories involving huge student debt. Nationally it's over $1Trillion, with defaults rising.
Large dropout rates resulting in wasted time and money, degrees in fields that offer no jobs, cultivated elitism that prevents many from seeking 'ordinary' work, knowingly promoting success through higher education to many who don't have ability to learn at that level.
It's a humorous irony that higher education is promoted to the masses 'so they won't have to work at McDonald's, and that so many university graduates wind up working there anyway.
Of course the biggest failure is the deliberate deprecation of labor, even skilled labor, which is viewed with absolute disdain by 'higher' education.
Eliminate these weaknesses and we might have a pretty good system.
My point is that if you give a the smartest person you know a piece of land one mile long with a bulge of 8 inches in the middle, they will tell you it is flat....all day long.
You are correct that your measurement is not level.
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