Current Events > Remember when 'higher education' used to be about learning and not getting jobs?

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In ages past: "I wish to explore the world of academia to enlighten myself unto this world's history and undertake scholarly research pursuits"

Now: "I wish to get through this bullshit with a degree in whatever so I at least have a shot at a job that keeps me above the poverty line."
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thanks Obama

its still about learning. but nobody wants to learn without getting a job at the end of it. (well most people anyway)
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I don't have a degree and pretty much every job I've ever had kept me well above the poverty line...
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I fully intend to get a BA at a community college once I work past my current issues.
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I'm pretty sure it was never that way in your lifetime.

The scope of jobs that college is required for has broadened, but even when my parents were going to college, getting a degree wasn't just for personal edification.
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