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0 pointslong_time_gone4y ago0 comments

This sounds like a bias working backwards to find a justification. Is there any studies or data that support your stance? Which are the "good" majors? Who gets to judge that?

> There are reams of low-grade degrees in which the majority of teaching is in memorization, and not mastering new ways to think.

The biggest complaint from anyone I know who studied medicine/pre-med is the sheer amount of memorization involved. Must be a useless field of study.

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JumpCrisscross4y ago

> biggest complaint from anyone I know who studied medicine/pre-med is the sheer amount of memorization

This is a straw man. Nobody said memorization is verboten.

A certificate granted for mainly memorization, where no new modes of thinking or doing were involved, is not worth tends of thousands of dollars. If a med school matriculated students who never did practical and had never deliberated treatment modes and tradeoffs, et cetera, yes, it would be close to useless.

long_time_goneOP4y ago

>A certificate granted for mainly memorization, where no new modes of thinking or doing were involved, is not worth tends of thousands of dollars.

And here is your straw man. Nobody said they were worth that much. You haven't demonstrated that a significant portion of any major exhibits these traits.

JumpCrisscross4y ago

> Nobody said they were worth that much

Four years of a young person's time is worth tens of thousands of dollars. So beyond the direct cost of education, that is the opportunity cost, to the individual and to society. I think that's money well spent for e.g. a proper liberal arts degree. It isn't for a piece of paper pursued for its own end.

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0 pointslong_time_gone4y ago0 comments

This sounds like a bias working backwards to find a justification. Is there any studies or data that support your stance? Which are the "good" majors? Who gets to judge that?

> There are reams of low-grade degrees in which the majority of teaching is in memorization, and not mastering new ways to think.

The biggest complaint from anyone I know who studied medicine/pre-med is the sheer amount of memorization involved. Must be a useless field of study.

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JumpCrisscross4y ago

> biggest complaint from anyone I know who studied medicine/pre-med is the sheer amount of memorization

This is a straw man. Nobody said memorization is verboten.

long_time_goneOP4y ago

>A certificate granted for mainly memorization, where no new modes of thinking or doing were involved, is not worth tends of thousands of dollars.

And here is your straw man. Nobody said they were worth that much. You haven't demonstrated that a significant portion of any major exhibits these traits.

JumpCrisscross4y ago

> Nobody said they were worth that much

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