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The Student Loan Sinkhole
Up until recently (speaking in terms of decades and centuries), education was a luxury and privilege afforded and assessable to the social elite in societiesall over the world. After watching this video, I can't help but get the feeling that we're slowly, but surely, returning to those archaicstratifications that made education (at the level where it matters) a option for the privileged few--as a consequence of financial cost.
I mean, it really seems like if you're going to go to college, then you better set your sites on getting an MD, JD, Pharm.D, MBA, or something thatcombines any of the aforementioned degrees. Because apparently, being a teacher--imo, one of THE most important professions in a society--is not going to be"worth" the price and cost of your education. And as the video showed, being a social worker wont cut it either. I guess we don't put muchemphasis on the important roles these professionals play in maintaining the fabric of our otherwise debilitating and abrading American society.
More importantly, this makes you ask and wonder--what is the goal of education? Is it simply a way for one to achieve income, or is it something more. Is itabout passion--the gateway through which one can explore and understand his/her facultative abilities, all in an effort to have some profound understanding ofthe world we live in and that which surrounds us.�
Realtalk, I want to be a Renaissance man, like the DaVinci's and the Michelangelo's, but it seems like if I want to live a somewhat comfortable in thisday and age, I better sight my sights on being like Bill Gates or Diddy. To me this video aint just about Student Loans, it's allegorical with hints ofpresent day slavery and social stratification. And as previously mentioned, it forces you to consider whether learning should be done for the sake of learning,or done for the sake of money.
I suppose if your passion is to be an MD, JD, Pharm.D, then you're one of the lucky few. For the majority of us outside those fields, it would seem asthough college is a financial TRAP when present day costs are factored into the equation, and presented to reality.
This country freaking blows...
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Up until recently (speaking in terms of decades and centuries), education was a luxury and privilege afforded and assessable to the social elite in societiesall over the world. After watching this video, I can't help but get the feeling that we're slowly, but surely, returning to those archaicstratifications that made education (at the level where it matters) a option for the privileged few--as a consequence of financial cost.
I mean, it really seems like if you're going to go to college, then you better set your sites on getting an MD, JD, Pharm.D, MBA, or something thatcombines any of the aforementioned degrees. Because apparently, being a teacher--imo, one of THE most important professions in a society--is not going to be"worth" the price and cost of your education. And as the video showed, being a social worker wont cut it either. I guess we don't put muchemphasis on the important roles these professionals play in maintaining the fabric of our otherwise debilitating and abrading American society.
More importantly, this makes you ask and wonder--what is the goal of education? Is it simply a way for one to achieve income, or is it something more. Is itabout passion--the gateway through which one can explore and understand his/her facultative abilities, all in an effort to have some profound understanding ofthe world we live in and that which surrounds us.�
Realtalk, I want to be a Renaissance man, like the DaVinci's and the Michelangelo's, but it seems like if I want to live a somewhat comfortable in thisday and age, I better sight my sights on being like Bill Gates or Diddy. To me this video aint just about Student Loans, it's allegorical with hints ofpresent day slavery and social stratification. And as previously mentioned, it forces you to consider whether learning should be done for the sake of learning,or done for the sake of money.
I suppose if your passion is to be an MD, JD, Pharm.D, then you're one of the lucky few. For the majority of us outside those fields, it would seem asthough college is a financial TRAP when present day costs are factored into the equation, and presented to reality.
This country freaking blows...
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