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InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 11 months agoTo be fair I feel like college is way less about teaching you anything specific and way more about teaching you critical thinking and abstract conceptualization.
That’s because conservatives want to replace universities with vocational schools. Nothing wrong with those schools, but its just another face of their culture war politics making their way to everyday discussions.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah I really don’t know what your reasoning here is. Can you explain?
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Conservatives often want to talk down the value of attending a university (particularly when studying liberal arts and humanities). Like the commenter above me points out much of university is about understanding concepts and developing ideas, and less how to do a particular weld or which pipe to use (vocation). It depends on what you study too, STEM will have more hands on but never as much as someone who went to a technical school to actually do the building of stuff. By convincing people that university is supposed to be vocational it feeds into their talking points about education being woke and unnecessary.
Kind of ironic coming from a group of lawyers and theologians.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It sounds like what they are saying is correct then, so I don’t get how they have fallen for the idea that everything needs to be vocational