01-31-2013, 08:20 PM
As i said, I am following on and off FREE courses that you may find online.
A few of them are from top-shelf universities such as Harvard etc.
In one of those, the professor recurrently serenades his students -the usual class of several hundred people- about how upscale Harvard is; how soooo much smarter than the average they have to be; how quickly after graduation they are going to rub elbows with the wealthy and powerful, cashing enormous wages etc.
Now, the students appearing on and off in the lectures are in no way whatsoever different from the garden variety lefty, hip-hop, multi-culti teenager one may find at the dilapidated community college down the block.
Would I spend $40.000 a year to rub elbow with any of them?
Well, maybe that chick on the right, but I may have much better luck at a massage parlor, with a better-looking chick, and definitely at a minute fraction of the cost.
Second, a percentage of those students may -indeed- sail towards a brilliant future of caviar, limousines and sixfigure income...if they have what it takes...the right ethnocultural background, masonic lodge, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, family connections...
How many, exactly?
top 1% of their class? 3%? 6%?
So that's how the education cartel perpetuates itself through what is deception on par with that pop-up that promises to teach you how to turn 10$ into 10.000 overnight with that forex scheme stolen from the wealthy'n'powerful...all for $19.99, 29.99 etc (cheaper than 40.000, though).
A few of them are from top-shelf universities such as Harvard etc.
In one of those, the professor recurrently serenades his students -the usual class of several hundred people- about how upscale Harvard is; how soooo much smarter than the average they have to be; how quickly after graduation they are going to rub elbows with the wealthy and powerful, cashing enormous wages etc.
Now, the students appearing on and off in the lectures are in no way whatsoever different from the garden variety lefty, hip-hop, multi-culti teenager one may find at the dilapidated community college down the block.
Would I spend $40.000 a year to rub elbow with any of them?
Well, maybe that chick on the right, but I may have much better luck at a massage parlor, with a better-looking chick, and definitely at a minute fraction of the cost.
Second, a percentage of those students may -indeed- sail towards a brilliant future of caviar, limousines and sixfigure income...if they have what it takes...the right ethnocultural background, masonic lodge, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, family connections...
How many, exactly?
top 1% of their class? 3%? 6%?
So that's how the education cartel perpetuates itself through what is deception on par with that pop-up that promises to teach you how to turn 10$ into 10.000 overnight with that forex scheme stolen from the wealthy'n'powerful...all for $19.99, 29.99 etc (cheaper than 40.000, though).
A.A Mole University
B.A London Institute of Applied Research
B.Sc Millard Fillmore
M.A International Institute for Advanced Studies
Ph.D London Institute of Applied Research
Ph.D Millard Fillmore
B.A London Institute of Applied Research
B.Sc Millard Fillmore
M.A International Institute for Advanced Studies
Ph.D London Institute of Applied Research
Ph.D Millard Fillmore