Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "" video.

  1.  @HarryF-tz5fo  You think everybody in STEM gets a job? 😂😂😂
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  2. @leoantonio  I'm not clear on what institutions he believes "made this country great." As for all the pseudo-progressive NewSpeak/New Chatter, it serves as some sort of major distraction, to the benefit of the same class. It reminds me of the way "affirmative action" in Ivy League admissions was used as a fig leaf for legacy/special development admissions, which may account for how roughly half of the seats in the freshman class are allocated. We got a glimpse behind the curtain concerning all that, at Harvard, when two billionaires tussled over who would be university president. Ackman won over Pritzker.
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  3. @louurich9087  The problem with the trades is having to save like crazy, because you might have to retire 10 to 15 years before everyone else, when the reality for most people is having to work until 70, 72. Liberal Arts at least gives you a foundation so that you can retool later. As for what most people study, well . . . the most common degree is in Business, and has been for about 35 years, if not longer. Next come the Health Sciences, with Nursing on top. What did you think people were studying? College is trade school for most people. As for a Bachelor's in Business, unless a person gets a CPA or takes advanced mathematics and finance, that is a useless degree -- apart from signaling docility. An English major with a calculus sequence and a minor in Economics will get into law school or a top MBA program first. Most people in liberal arts are planning to get an advanced degree, of which there are many besides MD, JD, MBA, or PhD: MSW, MFA, MPA, MPH, MLS, DPsy in clinical psychology, school psychology, etc., and a bunch more I can't remember. Still, basically agreeing with you. Of course STEM ebbs and flows, and for exactly the reason you said.
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  4.  @_m_K_.  Law school plus an LLM in patent law. That's serious money.
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  5. ​@johnstrawb3521 That would be rare but not impossible: someone with a photographic memory, and exceptional visual pattern recognition and fine motor skills could be outstanding. But that's not primarily "due to education." It is due in large part to talent. Discursive ability is rewarded at university, but it has less bearing on success as a heart surgeon than these talents do, by far.
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  6.  @ianhesford  It's strange, but in France, all that rote memorization leads to rebellion. I can't figure that one out, either.
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  7.  @iller3  Same
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  8. 💯
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  9. Yes. He was just a late bloomer, and never got "straight As." But that he wasn't a good student by the time he was 14 or 15 is a myth.
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  10. Debt does not exist to give us access to higher education. Higher education exists to service debt. That's why Twitter hires those people.
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  11. Only Congress can legislate with respect to taxes. Do you actually think the DOE has anything to say about how higher education is financed? The major banks do . . . You know, the too big to fail, too big to jail crowd. Debt does not exist to give us access to higher education. Higher education exists to service debt. That's why Twitter hires those people. Follow the money, honey.
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  12. The curriculum? The most common degree is in Business, and has been for about 35 years, if not longer. Next come Health Sciences, with Nursing on top. What did you think people were studying? A bunch of grifters are selling you a line at a hefty price. Their kids will go to college, if they want. They won't need to. As for a Bachelor's in Business, unless a person gets a CPA or takes advanced mathematics and finance, that is a useless degree. An English major with a calculus sequence and a minor in Economics will get into law school or an MBA program first.
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  13. You guys know what happened, right? High school became feminized, then the university did. There used to be men teaching high school. Now, men only teach graduate school. That's why docility passes for "academic merit."
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  14. It has no longer has much to do with merit, unless you think merit was on display on the part of Elise Stefanik or Liz Magill et al. On the contrary, standards have come close to collapse.
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  15. @denverlove  Well, when I was in the French system, all admissions testing was achievement-based, and aptitude/IQ testing for admission to any program was against the law. Each diploma gave you a right of access to the next level. Their production of world-class writers, philosophers, Fields medalists, filmmakers, etc., relative to their population is either the highest in the world or close. The Ministry of Education set the standards. It's uncanny how many of our great writers lived there, too. They have that certain something. I don't know how they're doing now, since "modernizing." In other words, they started copying us. So far, the results in general are meager, but some good stuff is emerging. I think. I don't know how Oxford/Cambridge run admissions, but I think their tutorial system is the best education in the world. I also think that any system that throws you into practicums that make you apply what you've just learned is better in principle than studying, writing papers, and taking tests. That's why lab sciences should be part of every degree. I think our system for teaching lab sciences is the best -- or was? That was our thing. And it can't happen online or with AI simulations. Also, do any of us really know what Russia, China, and India are doing? We hear a soundbite now and then.
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  16.  @denverlove  Maybe a sort by Newest might let you see. 😂
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  17. ​​ I replied. Guess what? The Shadow knows.
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  18.  @denverlove  Sort by Newest
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  19. @denverlove  The new scents err sheep . . . It's not gone, it's in the shadows.
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  20.  @denverlove  Right. YT hides it.
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  21.  @denverlove  You know what's going on here, right? Or, no?
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  22.  @denverlove  Most of these were in the shade, too. Do you know how to sea it? :) You know now, right?
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  23. I would only argue in part with point 10.
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