The best way to beat this system is to get a higher level apprenticeship where they pay you to go to college and you get a job at the end of it. 👍 I did an apprenticeship after everyone in school pushed me towards going to university and it was one of the best choices I ever made. I got a job at the end which is a skilled job and I got trained to program and operate the machines I used in my day to day job now. Also means I have no massive depts to pay off.
I agree, or get a entry level job in a field that interests you. Many fields and companies will often pay to further educate you in said field. This allows you many advantages over traditional route. 1: "test drive" your skills and interest in a field, oftentimes you can learn the most about an occupation and how it works successfully going from bottom up. 2: you won't waste 4+yrs and $100K just to find out a field isn't viable or interests you 3: either 0 or subsidised school loans when your employer pays for it. 4: if your working in the field your currently educating yourself on it gives you big advantage to absorb the knowledge being taught than another who is not. 5: a graduate with experience will find a job far easier and with better compensation than those with just a degree.
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” -Calvin Coolidge
It fails to address the oppression that any critical person endures while in college. Freedom of speech might be restricted for professors. However there is no way that a student gets away with voicing or making a (sound) argument which goes against the political view of his professor. Surely in times where only the rich went to university (since it clearly would be a consumer good on the free market, with other institutions teaching applied sciences or skills, like medicine, law, engineering, etc...), their opinions would not have prevented them from graduating. Who would voluntarily go to school to be indoctrinated and flunked for voicing a “bad opinion”?...
If you’re smart many more opportunities are available to you compared to the average person. If you’re smart and work hard you can make it big in high tech doing all kinds of things from system administration to networking to programming to research to management, etc. I successfully rose through the ranks in the high tech profession with only an 8th grade education. There are no excuses for not being able to learn things: we all have access to books and/or the internet. Get an unpaid tech internship as soon as possible (ideally when you’re a young teen, but even late 20s is okay) to get your foot in the door and work hard to exceed expectations of everyone you interact with. Be polite. Be humble. In just a few short years you can dramatically change the course of your life. Work long hours. Study after work. Sleep when you’re dead. If you adopt the right attitude it can take you very far!
BobWidlefish Sounds like advice for USSR comrades. It is completely demotivating for a normal person who might not have an entrepreneurial spirit, but would fare well without a useless degree, but now can’t compete with those that have slaved away in college. I have an MD degree (but it was a worthless education), btw.
*@Marnik Minelli* why is it demotivating? If a farmers kid with an 8th grade education can make it then surely you can with your degree. Having a degree doesn’t hurt you except to the extent the additional schooling filled your head with nonsense and wasted your time and money. But that’s all a sunk cost, no reason to feel bad about it. What matters is what you do next. As the saying goes today is the first day of the rest of your life. What are you going to make of it? Life is so very short my friend, time is the most precious commodity. I wasted a lot of my younger years too, getting expelled, trouble with the law, struggling with depression, etc. Then I decided to improve my life and from that moment forward I took small steps mostly in a forward direction and it paid off rather quickly. So it is for everyone, including you. Use your free time to learn things that make you more valuable. It’s incredible what you can learn in just an hour a day over the course of a few months. Your mistakes do not define you, your past is what it is - tomorrow what is whatever you make it!
Well, I was actually speaking more generally. But thank you for the personal motivational speech, I’m sure I’ll become a rich doctor in my monopolistic position, though! XD I just think that your advice is misdirected. There can be all sorts of injustices happening in the world, and you could still keep saying that by a little harder work you’d still be able to make something good out of it. This seems like a rather depressive kind of motivational speech directed at modern slaves.
*@Marnik Minelli* my advice is aimed at smart people who have limited education. I just wanted to say it’s very possible to make it if you work hard, in contrast to why was said in this video.
Well, and I’m saying that your advice or, rather, comment could always be uttered and might be true in any society (even the most communist one). The advice, therefore, is nothing more than a motivation to keep at it, even if you’re living and working in slavery. This is depressive advice, not constructive, I fear.
The main problem with education is licesing. Licesing prevents to increase supply of colleges, to address rising prices. Licesing force people to get education license anyway, because there is occupational licensing. Licensing creates that signaling force that distorts labor market, that already infavorable to young people. But nobody talk why labor market became such picky ))
Higher education should be funded mostly by private investors and philanthropists. The investor pays tuition and living expenses of a student in exchange for a share of the student's future economic potential. A STEM student capable of making a billion dollar technical leap will get more favorable terms than an arts student destined to be a barista. The investor has a vested interest in keeping costs low, getting an accurate measure of student ability, and placing students in the most effective educational institutions. The philanthropist is investing in legacy: to have his or her name associated with a future Nobel Prize winner and consequently has a vested interest in supporting the highest standards of scholarship. Investors and philanthropists will create incentives for higher education institutions to improve scholarship rather than dilute scholarship.
Knowledge is not the same as 'skills' - you can have knowledge but be taught to apply it inappropriately - a lot of modern Education and HR teachings being good examples. Also, you can know a lot - but it is useless (e.g. redundant or just plain wrong) or is irrelevant e.g. the application of Gender stereotypes to Engineering (not teaching you how to build a bridge but how 'bridges are male constructs of oppression' - um, OK - congratulations to the University of Queensland, Australia, with their 'diversity policies, for hiring someone (only women were allowed to apply, who believes such things. I wonder if a bridge 'self-identifies lol).
25:00 it’s only hard to succeed with an 8th grade education if you’re average or below average intelligence. If you win the genetic lottery and have a high IQ you can still retire young in your early 30s, even if you only have an 8th grade education, even if you’re born to a poor rural family, etc. Don’t let pieces of paper or family history hold you back. Public schools teach little that’s useful after about 4th or 5th grade. By the time 6th grade rolls around it’s mostly propaganda and filler, and this continues through the remaining years. Anything useful they might teach can be learned in a few weeks time if you end up needing it: read a book or take a specific course on the subject.
Anyone who wants to learn something concrete............. take a few flying lessons and / or ground school lessons. You will be glad you did. Doesn't matter if you don't want to be a pilot. Fine. Read line 1 again.
The best way to beat this system is to get a higher level apprenticeship where they pay you to go to college and you get a job at the end of it. 👍
I did an apprenticeship after everyone in school pushed me towards going to university and it was one of the best choices I ever made. I got a job at the end which is a skilled job and I got trained to program and operate the machines I used in my day to day job now. Also means I have no massive depts to pay off.
I agree, or get a entry level job in a field that interests you. Many fields and companies will often pay to further educate you in said field. This allows you many advantages over traditional route.
1: "test drive" your skills and interest in a field, oftentimes you can learn the most about an occupation and how it works successfully going from bottom up.
2: you won't waste 4+yrs and $100K just to find out a field isn't viable or interests you
3: either 0 or subsidised school loans when your employer pays for it.
4: if your working in the field your currently educating yourself on it gives you big advantage to absorb the knowledge being taught than another who is not.
5: a graduate with experience will find a job far easier and with better compensation than those with just a degree.
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” -Calvin Coolidge
It fails to address the oppression that any critical person endures while in college. Freedom of speech might be restricted for professors. However there is no way that a student gets away with voicing or making a (sound) argument which goes against the political view of his professor. Surely in times where only the rich went to university (since it clearly would be a consumer good on the free market, with other institutions teaching applied sciences or skills, like medicine, law, engineering, etc...), their opinions would not have prevented them from graduating. Who would voluntarily go to school to be indoctrinated and flunked for voicing a “bad opinion”?...
If you’re smart many more opportunities are available to you compared to the average person. If you’re smart and work hard you can make it big in high tech doing all kinds of things from system administration to networking to programming to research to management, etc. I successfully rose through the ranks in the high tech profession with only an 8th grade education. There are no excuses for not being able to learn things: we all have access to books and/or the internet. Get an unpaid tech internship as soon as possible (ideally when you’re a young teen, but even late 20s is okay) to get your foot in the door and work hard to exceed expectations of everyone you interact with. Be polite. Be humble. In just a few short years you can dramatically change the course of your life. Work long hours. Study after work. Sleep when you’re dead. If you adopt the right attitude it can take you very far!
BobWidlefish Sounds like advice for USSR comrades. It is completely demotivating for a normal person who might not have an entrepreneurial spirit, but would fare well without a useless degree, but now can’t compete with those that have slaved away in college. I have an MD degree (but it was a worthless education), btw.
*@Marnik Minelli* why is it demotivating? If a farmers kid with an 8th grade education can make it then surely you can with your degree. Having a degree doesn’t hurt you except to the extent the additional schooling filled your head with nonsense and wasted your time and money. But that’s all a sunk cost, no reason to feel bad about it. What matters is what you do next. As the saying goes today is the first day of the rest of your life. What are you going to make of it? Life is so very short my friend, time is the most precious commodity. I wasted a lot of my younger years too, getting expelled, trouble with the law, struggling with depression, etc. Then I decided to improve my life and from that moment forward I took small steps mostly in a forward direction and it paid off rather quickly. So it is for everyone, including you. Use your free time to learn things that make you more valuable. It’s incredible what you can learn in just an hour a day over the course of a few months. Your mistakes do not define you, your past is what it is - tomorrow what is whatever you make it!
Well, I was actually speaking more generally. But thank you for the personal motivational speech, I’m sure I’ll become a rich doctor in my monopolistic position, though! XD
I just think that your advice is misdirected. There can be all sorts of injustices happening in the world, and you could still keep saying that by a little harder work you’d still be able to make something good out of it.
This seems like a rather depressive kind of motivational speech directed at modern slaves.
*@Marnik Minelli* my advice is aimed at smart people who have limited education. I just wanted to say it’s very possible to make it if you work hard, in contrast to why was said in this video.
Well, and I’m saying that your advice or, rather, comment could always be uttered and might be true in any society (even the most communist one). The advice, therefore, is nothing more than a motivation to keep at it, even if you’re living and working in slavery. This is depressive advice, not constructive, I fear.
The main problem with education is licesing. Licesing prevents to increase supply of colleges, to address rising prices. Licesing force people to get education license anyway, because there is occupational licensing.
Licensing creates that signaling force that distorts labor market, that already infavorable to young people.
But nobody talk why labor market became such picky ))
Higher education should be funded mostly by private investors and philanthropists. The investor pays tuition and living expenses of a student in exchange for a share of the student's future economic potential. A STEM student capable of making a billion dollar technical leap will get more favorable terms than an arts student destined to be a barista. The investor has a vested interest in keeping costs low, getting an accurate measure of student ability, and placing students in the most effective educational institutions. The philanthropist is investing in legacy: to have his or her name associated with a future Nobel Prize winner and consequently has a vested interest in supporting the highest standards of scholarship. Investors and philanthropists will create incentives for higher education institutions to improve scholarship rather than dilute scholarship.
I work for myself so I’m part of the 37%. :P
Wow, that was a big build up that ended on a damp squib!
Knowledge is not the same as 'skills' - you can have knowledge but be taught to apply it inappropriately - a lot of modern Education and HR teachings being good examples. Also, you can know a lot - but it is useless (e.g. redundant or just plain wrong) or is irrelevant e.g. the application of Gender stereotypes to Engineering (not teaching you how to build a bridge but how 'bridges are male constructs of oppression' - um, OK - congratulations to the University of Queensland, Australia, with their 'diversity policies, for hiring someone (only women were allowed to apply, who believes such things. I wonder if a bridge 'self-identifies lol).
25:00 it’s only hard to succeed with an 8th grade education if you’re average or below average intelligence. If you win the genetic lottery and have a high IQ you can still retire young in your early 30s, even if you only have an 8th grade education, even if you’re born to a poor rural family, etc. Don’t let pieces of paper or family history hold you back. Public schools teach little that’s useful after about 4th or 5th grade. By the time 6th grade rolls around it’s mostly propaganda and filler, and this continues through the remaining years. Anything useful they might teach can be learned in a few weeks time if you end up needing it: read a book or take a specific course on the subject.
Ugly secret: No one needs American middle school. It’s entirely skippable.
People should routinely delay college until after 24 so they can’t go after their parents ira savings.
Anyone who wants to learn something concrete............. take a few flying lessons and / or ground school lessons. You will be glad you did. Doesn't matter if you don't want to be a pilot. Fine. Read line 1 again.