FWIW - consider that this board is an overwhelmingly highly educated crowd. We still get this thread:
These are not posters who just aren’t seeing that liberal arts can be useful even if you don’t directly use it, they bemoan having to learn math skills that they feel they don’t need …
A little dissonance here.
Would you please point out where I have ever stated that people without a college education are ignorant? I have taken pains at every turn to express the opposite.
My apologies. Conflating your response with @LSLGuy’s relegating the group as therefore having “no ability to learn” … your position on the issue is more nuanced.
I still maintain that you overestimate the efficacy of college at encouraging lifelong learning, and underestimate how much that tendency is baked in by the time someone is 18. I’ve known many incurious college graduates and many intellectually curious without college educations. Moreover when I did show up to the one HS reunion I attended - the incurious of HS hadn’t become any more intellectual as college graduates.
Quite possibly!
Not if students aren’t motivated.
I suspect that I see more gorgeous women jogging around my urban neighborhood every day than the average rural person sees in a year.