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Kage520@lemmy.world 10 hours agoNot really. I’m not sure how it ended up so rounded, but getting a degree is more than just “get skills for the job”. When you are getting any bachelor’s degree, you also have to take a certain amount of history, music appreciation, etc, heck my school even required lifetime fitness. It’s also learning alongside your peers to suffer together, I mean work together.
Also, for something like engineering, you don’t want a job to teach the basics of safely designing a building. You want that in school so when your job asks you to do something dumb, you can explain to them why it is unsafe and correctly refuse.
I like how my friend put it: “You COULD go to a technical school to get a job, but you wouldn’t be very interesting to talk to.”
This is really the type of scholarship you would expect in a capitalist society.
Essentially, big corpos would scout HS and undergrad students for prospective employees and offer them tuition and a job contract, with payback requirements if they don’t graduate and fulfill the contract. Pretty much the same deal and college/pro sports.
Despite sounding dystopian AF, it still somehow sounds better than what we have now.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
that’s not true. maybe you were required to do that, but every school is different and maybe have entire dropped the trad liberal arts or general ed requirements. my college had no such requirements you should take whatever you wanted as long as you had a major.