Do you think Spike would eventually go to college? What would he major in? Would he just get a bachelor's, or would he go on to earn a master's or even a PhD?
>>43366110No, if he hoards too much knowledge he turns evil and they have to kill him or something
Spike would get his PhD in cleaning shitters
>>43366110He's a filthy fucking dragon, he'd eventually feel the urge to eat meat the bigger he grows and he'll start killing ponies for their blood
>>43366110Reading is good
>>43366205Twilight...
>>43366209It's true though
>>43366117Anon... dragons eat gemstones...
masters in environmental sustainability
>>43366209Everyone in Equestria reads.
>>43366110I doubt equestria would have general colleges as we would understand it. For the most part higher education would probably be vocational, where ponies with relevant cutie marks would train under masters of a craft.Also, the college/university system in the west is deeply depraved. Why would you want to imagine such a setup in a fantasy world.
>>43366249That's what they want you to think. Next thing you know your neighbor'll be eaten alive right in front of you, and your pet will be picked up and literally torn in two! And then it happens to your own foal! OH, THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
>>43366800I don't have numbers, but I'm sure that nearly half of the fandom has a bachelor's degree or their equivalent, so having a master's or a PhD is to be expected.
>>43366811Sure, but one can still recognize that our system is deeply flawed and should not exist. University should not be the norm. The student loan enslavement system needs to end. University must return to the elite only place it originally was. Normal people should be able to get jobs without being put into life long debt enslavement.
>>43366832That's more of an American problem than a worldwide one. The rest of the world is doing fine. What Americans need is free tertiary education, that is, free college.
>>43366904The student loan enslavement system is not just limited to the US. The UK has a very similar thing going on.
>>43366110Well he wants to major in cocksucking 101 but I told him that'd put you out of a job, OP.
>>43366832>University must return to the elite only place it originally wasThat's a hard sell on a quartenary sector economy that requires a large base of highly educated and specialized people to produce its wealth.
>>43366917Most people use basically nothing of what they learned in higher education. Its a complete waste of time. Spending 3-4 years of your peak health time studying bullshit you will completely forget just so you have a piece of paper which gives you permission to apply to a job.
>>43366249Gemstones are a scarce resource
>>43366832What are you talking about, universities are free.
>>43366936Studying highly technical topics is more useful than may be immediately apparent, even if they are not directly transferrable. For instance I'm glad there are policymakers with a background in neuroscience or medieval history even if those topics have nothing to do with their current required skillset.
>>43366992Why? I can tell you as a doctoral student myself at one of the ‘best’ universities in the world, most doctoral students are as vain and uncritical as the general populace, except where they have been highly trained in their one minute subsubdiscipline. To say nothing of the extreme liberal bias at these universities, which while less relevant in the STEM fields makes diverse research in the humanities all the more difficult. So I’m not sure how having government legislators with degrees in nonsense helps government do better. You don’t think that just because they have the degree they are more intelligent, do you?I personally have long felt as the other anon did that most people who do go to college do not need to. On the other hand, restricting it to ‘the elite’ doesn’t seem to solve the problem, as what does ‘the elite’ mean? If he means the wealthy, they are just as stupid and probably less appreciative and don’t need it anyway as they will have connections inherently better than the rest. If he means those from prep schools, much the same population mind you, then you’re essentially saying to anyone intelligent but not born into wealth to pound sand. I honestly haven’t fully determined this myself, so I’m happy to talk further, but it always makes me laugh when people think having a degree or being educated at an excellent school is a reliable proof of true intellectual output. It very often isn’t.
>>43367018Several reasons. Sometimes the subdiscipline still matters. It's good that people working on energy policy are trained in atomic physics, because it means that they can understand the basic concepts of the sector they hold sway over. And atomic physics isn't something that you can just give a bureaucrat a crash course in, it requires years to get to the required level of theoretical understanding; whereas bureaucratic skills are more transferable and can be learned "on the job". Atomic physics students also learn programming, statistics, reading and writing documents, etc. Yes, they will learn much more than they will ever need in practice, but you don't want someone whose knowledge is limited to the requirement of his job. I took a course called advanced quantum field theory once; I will never ever use this knowledge and frankly I didn't understand most of it, but fuck me it pushed me to my absolute limit and I rest happy knowing that whatever I face in my professional life, it will not be as intense and demanding as that.Even when there's more of a gap between the degree and the later job, university (provided it's a good university) teaches rigour and critical thinking. I know this isn't always perfect, I've seen enough papers/talks where the author/speaker just cannot get to the point; but still, talking to my my university-educated peers on topics like politics is a lot more constructive and worth my time than talking to my working class parents, who are mostly unfamiliar with the concept of "looking something up" and "checking the source".It is also good that people with degrees in the humanities are injected into society at large. We do not want that nobody except "the elite" knows how to perform historical research or archeology. Or, taking it further, that only "the elite" understands the historical and social context of the Iliad, and therefore determines how we think about it. The universities are in principle open to everyone, and give their students the tools to perform objective, sound criticism. This arrangement, even if it is ideologically biased, is societally healthy, but the alternative that is ideologically biased /elitist/ universities, is not.And even if university-trained students end up not applying their degree, what of it? They still end up in jobs that pay back their investment. The girlfriend of one of my friends studied theater science, typical liberal arts stuff that I don't know much about, and she landed a very respectable job at the national trade union. Not sure which skills made her stand out above the rest, but she still became the final choice. Another friend studied physics, he's now doing consultancy and already has a top-grade salary. I don't know of any studies on return of investment on university education, but I'm pretty sure it more than pays off.But I'd like to hear the alternative. What would be the advantages of not sending people to college? What problems does it solve?
I'm typing here just to let you both know that I'm not reading your long posts. I hate dragons!
>>43367171>I hate dragons!Ripto?
>>43366110>gigantic nerd>lives for thousands of years>family is loadedHe's going to get all the degrees.>>43366114Then this.
>>43367197>RiptoWho?
>>43367324
>>43366832should be like how it is in equestria: all unskilled labor is performed easily with magic (robots + global agreement to tax automation, distributed as ubi), giving ponies the freedom to pursue wat they are really meant to do -- should have been done centuries ago (ag & ind. revolutions) ...but we have no all-team organizer
>>43367338I still have no idea who he is.
>>43367602Antagonist of Spyro 2, he hates dragons.
>>43367623Oh, I see. I never played any Spyro games, though I've heard they are popular in the US.
