College professors complain their jobs are being taken by online education.

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Your observations are accurate, I believe, with regard to what is true in general. And the situation is likely to get worse, as colleges and universities become increasingly more subject to political pressures, and wealthy, fried chicken franchise owners exercise more and more influence over college board decisions. ("wealthy, fried chicken franchise owners" is metonymous here. I have nothing against fried chicken.)

In the American psyche, knowing how to work the deep fryer at KFC is more important than reading Beowulf.
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What the online education is doing is actually what the elites want. People can choose that option and alot of people will, but good, high paying jobs wont accept such fluff degrees. So now the problem is that we have a bunch of people who are still basically high school intelligence with a college degree, but can reduce the pay because the online college degree is the new highschool degree, and only keep the real high paying jobs for the graduates of UT Austin, UCLA, Stanford, Michigan. While at the same time shaving small amounts of money off of the good salaries and requiring more work for that salary.

I have pretty much detirmined that the only way I will be able to achieve true financial freedom is through trading. So I have 3 1/2 more years to practice while im in school before the real world comes. ;)
 
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Im sure nobody here wants to hear my thoughts on the subject. I will say just one thing. The level of academia here in the US is just horrible. I'm sitting in school right now, but I would be the first one to say that 95% of the people sitting in the class room do not deserve a college credit for the work we do....Myself included.

The reason I am here, I failed out of school in France, but I have a US passport and family living here in the States. So I decided to come here and take advantage of some kind of grant that my family told me about. Now that I am in class here, its a joke....these teachers give us the answers before the test!, In france I was in class for close to 6 hours, and then 4 hours a day of studying....and still failed out, here...im studying less then half of that and still making As.


then the cost is an entirely different issue that I won't get into right now.
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then transfer to the France and study for FREE. what's your major? what college your are in?
US is sucks. bad education,overpriced. we know this.,but what's the alternative? quality and price wise. anyone? medical field.
wanna be a doctor in US with 250K starting salary ? where would you go?
 
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then transfer to the France and study for FREE. what's your major? what college your are in?
US is sucks. bad education,overpriced. we know this.,but what's the alternative? quality and price wise. anyone? medical field.
wanna be a doctor in US with 250K starting salary ? where would you go?
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Bro, did u even read my post?

Yes I agree.. I should transfer to france, its a better education, also free (however my school is being paid for by the US by some sort of PELL grant they call it), so its free here for me too. But I guess you did not read my post about where I mentioned that I failed out of the University in France, lol...In fact I barely made it out of high school in France.

I'm being honest about my academic failure just to bring up the fact that university here in the states is just not that hard.

Obviously if you want to be a Doctor in the US, u need to do the work here in the states. But, you are also coming out of school with huge debt...in Europe not the case. Doctors in France make less then US doctors, no doubt, no arguing that, but I know doctors in france that make over 100k euros a year, without having to pay back loans....

Another idea for getting university here in the states for free, if you are a Spanish speaker, you can go to the universities in Puerto Rico. its acreddited just like schools on the mainland, and its also free (or low cost), a friend told me it was free....I cannot before about that fact at this moment.
 
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What the online education is doing is actually what the elites want. People can choose that option and alot of people will, but good, high paying jobs wont accept such fluff degrees. So now the problem is that we have a bunch of people who are still basically high school intelligence with a college degree, but can reduce the pay because the online college degree is the new highschool degree, and only keep the real high paying jobs for the graduates of UT Austin, UCLA, Stanford, Michigan. While at the same time shaving small amounts of money off of the good salaries and requiring more work for that salary.

I have pretty much detirmined that the only way I will be able to achieve true financial freedom is through trading. So I have 3 1/2 more years to practice while im in school before the real world comes. ;)
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then study statistics and math :)

Carlin said it almost decade ago.100% correct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqJvhmD5Yg
 
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Bro, did u even read my post?

Yes I agree.. I should transfer to france, its a better education, also free (however my school is being paid for by the US by some sort of PELL grant they call it), so its free here for me too. But I guess you did not read my post about where I mentioned that I failed out of the University in France, lol...In fact I barely made it out of high school in France.

I'm being honest about my academic failure just to bring up the fact that university here in the states is just not that hard.

Obviously if you want to be a Doctor in the US, u need to do the work here in the states. But, you are also coming out of school with huge debt...in Europe not the case. Doctors in France make less then US doctors, no doubt, no arguing that, but I know doctors in france that make over 100k euros a year, without having to pay back loans....

Another idea for getting university here in the states for free, if you are a Spanish speaker, you can go to the universities in Puerto Rico. its acreddited just like schools on the mainland, and its also free (or low cost), a friend told me it was free....I cannot before about that fact at this moment.
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see..you got it for free. The USA is a great country for stupid and poor people. when i was at the INS, i was only a white guy out of hundreds. most of the crowd wasn't even wearing the proper shoes; i can see their toe nails. they were long and disgusting. so long and curled that they can probably use it to crawl up an electric pole or palm trees from where they're from. this is the future of America. good luck believing that they are going to be a honest tax payers and productive part of American society.
now after some years of hard work i got some money in the bank and kid who successfully graduated high school. can he get a free pass?(I'm not making any money right now). nope. not a chance. as long as you have money in the bank, you(and your kids) are not eligible to any type of financial help. it doesn't matter if my current income is ZERO.
you have to be poor and dumb. best combo to get a free ride. even better-if you are black or anything but white. USA! USA! USA!

here is the documentary movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvIweCIgwk
 
Here's a newsflash: one doesn't go to college to learn, one goes to meet people. Bang broads, make friends. Figure out who you want to be, not what. Learn behavior that otherwise was unknown to you. Develop preferences, learn to be funny.

Anything outside of a top 40 school is a waste of time unless your parents are footing the bill.
 
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Here's a newsflash: one doesn't go to college to learn, one goes to meet people. Bang broads...
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How does the cost of tuition compare to just paying for prostitutes in terms of ROI?
 
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How does the cost of tuition compare to just paying for prostitutes in terms of ROI?
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paying for prostitutes is a sure path to the poor house, as you will develop a psychology that will attract parasites in all your relationships. Psychology/spirituality is one hidden cost.
 
If you want to know something about Excel spreadsheet then you tube has some good videos for free.

I look back at my school days and am amazed how boring the teachers made their subjects. History, geography etc. can be really interesting. Mostly time serving people on low wages.
 
what a shame, those profs are all there is between us and the dark ages.


i suggest we pay them all a 100k a year retainer, even if there are no classes for them to teach.
 
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