... wrote on Jan 9
th, 2013 at 9:52am:
gold_medal wrote on Jan 9
th, 2013 at 7:41am:
... wrote on Jan 8
th, 2013 at 9:01pm:
gold_medal wrote on Jan 8
th, 2013 at 7:56pm:
you lost the plot descibing our society as 'left-wing' that is more daft than most of the rubbish that gets posted here.
and I repeat that it is clear that your motivations for this odd, contradictory and rather embarrasisng rant is not about baby boomers but about a handful of them - probably your parents.
I've posted my explanations for the views i hold. If you think otherwise, you're gonna need to do a bit more than just say "you're wrong" or "it's rubbish" and speculate about my motivations.
For someone who complains about the standard of debate as much as you do, your debating ability sure is weak.
It is hard to debate you because your position shifts liek desert sand. One post the boomers had it easy at uni and you had it hard which was bad and a few posts later the boomers had it HARD at uni and your lot had it easy which was also bad. and then you pain todays society as left-wing which is lunacy.
you simply dont make consistent sense. How can I debate you position when you keep moving it?
nnnah my position is consistent. The education part seems to be the bit you're struggling with, so let me put it as simply as I can:
"while the
cost of degrees has increased, their
value has plummeted."
Too many fluffy degrees with no real knowledge gained or employment prospects, yet they still cost tens of thousands of dollars. Blatant profiteering from the education sector, at the expense of young peoples futures.
Yes I agree about 'fluffy' degrees but no one forces anyone to do a fluffy degree.
Fluffy degrees normally have low entry scores.
Program title: Bachelor of Arts
Award abbreviation: BA
QTAC code: 011001
OP/Rank for 2012 entry: OP-18 / Rank-63
Duration: 3 years full-time or equivalent part-time
Commence: Semester 1 or Semester 2
Study mode: on campus
Recommended prior study: English
Fee type 2012: Commonwealth supported places, fee paying places, international fee-paying places
Total units: 288
USC program code: AR301
CRICOS code: 022806B. Only a full-time option is available to international students on a Student Visa.
The Bachelor of Arts is a flexible program that allows studies in a wide variety of specialisations in arts, humanities and social sciences.
In this program you gain a broad, versatile education, and learn skills in critical thinking and analysis that are essential to many careers. You choose from a variety of discipline areas, enabling you to design a degree to suit your personal interests and career ambitions. The program also provides a basis for entry into an education degree and is a springboard to postgraduate study.
The problem with Arts degrees is that they fill your head with numerous theorists but teach very little critical thinking. It's basically just a course in memorising the various theorists and regurgitating it come assessment time. Most of these theorists are the postmodern trendy types that moan about how 'evil' our current and past society is/was.
The thing is with critical thinking, it should be value neutral; meaning, it ought to teach students to impartially pull apart an argument to see how it was constructed. For example, how was their conclusion reached? What evidence was there to support such a position? Is the evidence valid? Instead, what is mostly the norm is to "critique" things by finding "exploitation" or "oppression" everywhere. This approach involves inserting values into the critique. Which is why you get a whole bunch of graduates coming out of Arts degrees thinking that their "egalitarian" approach to "critique" is the epitome of critical thinking.
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