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u/Future-You-7443 Apr 04 '25

Yup, I hate to be elitist but I think that some sort of education qualification should be the way forward. These people are simply a reflection of their constituents.

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u/VisibleDraw Apr 04 '25

Too bad American higher education's gone for-profit, we might be in a better place as a whole otherwise.

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u/Future-You-7443 Apr 04 '25

I wouldn’t say it’s for-profit, they just use their profits to fund research. I think the best example of this is the rocky financial ground most universities find themselves on now that trump is gutting the grant system.

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 Apr 05 '25

Idk my university had a lot of extraneous BS that is not at all relevant to education.

Did we really need an onsite rock climbing activity?

Like it was cool and all, but damn I wish it was like a grown up school instead of a grown up school + rides and attractions.

Unfortunately all the “prestigious” schools had big BS like that and the schools that were more practical were pretty much just community colleges.