Comment This is disgusting (Score 1) 126
This is disgusting and everything possible should be done to - short of marginally increasing my electric bill or tax bill of course!
Its probably closer to one tenure-track job out there for every hundred PhD holders, Philosophy or otherwise.
That makes me wonder - how many philosophy PHDs can sit on the head of one tenure?
I have to question anyone who gets a BA in Philosophy and can't find a job thinks that getting a PhD or Masters will some how improve their odds of getting a job.
A professor of Philosophy?
...instead of guaranteeing loans, the government would have to guarantee a college education.
that is what we do. Works fine, here in Europe.
In fact a number of Americans are now coming to Europe to study for free
I'll believe that when they (a) join OIN or something equivalent or (b) grant a free license to those behaving in a civilized manner (developing free software, not suing around for patents, etc).
Up to then I'll consider them borderline trolls, regardless of whether "the lawyers told them to do so" (what a lame excuse, FFS!).
Its no surprise given the name of the academy that it will try to undermine others and take credit for their work. This is 100% the muslim attitude. If it is defensive it will be "defensive" in the same way that Al Qauida is - in that defensive means attacking anyone who might get in your way or that you perceive to be against you in some vague sense.
I can't recall a single instance in my life when I had to apply any sort of chemistry-based knowledge.
Let's apply that same logic to computer programming. How often are these kids going to be interacting with computers in their lifetimes? Might it not be handy to understand how those computers work, and perhaps even know how to write scripts to automate tasks, for instance? Which of the two knowledge or skill sets (programming or chemistry) is more likely to have a direct impact on these kids lives?
TL;DR version: nowadays, computers ARE fundamental.
Actually you applied different logic. "Many people interact with computers so it would be useful to know how they work" vs "I can't recall a single instance in my life when I had to apply any sort of chemistry-based knowledge".
The same logic would be:
"I can't recall a single instance in my life when I had to apply any sort of chemistry-based knowledge".
vs
"I can't recall a single instance in my life when I had to apply any sort of programming-based knowledge".
or
"Many people interact with computers so it would be useful to know how they work"
vs
"Many people interact with chemicals so it would be useful to know how they work"
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I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
