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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
If that is their career of choice, or their aspirations, those people likely shouldn't be going to university. That would be an incredible waste of money. But if someone who is highly motivated and capable of applying their lessons in any context, a classical education is never a wrong path to follow. That classical education will help them climb the ladder quicker and result in greater gains for them. Education is for everyone, but a classical education is not for everyone. Some people are better off going to a tech school because of the structure and regimentation the modality and pedagogy relies upon.
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In today's world, how does a classical education help anybody climb the ladder quicker? Today's employers do not value the classical education, they value degrees that specifically apply to their lines of business and for the majority of University courses and degrees, there is no one-to-one translation outside of STEM and Business School.
That is the biggest problem I saw and getting into the STEM and business schools was so competitive, many kids who don't belong in university settled for Communications and Culture or Psychology or History or other liberal arts degrees which left them utterly dazed and confused about how to find a job that they would be happy with.
For a vast majority of my cohorts and friends who went to post secondary in the 2000s, many of us have a undergraduate degree from a Canadian University but many ended up going to BCIT, NAIT, SAIT, etc. to actually be able to get a professional job in industry and nobody told us this. We had to find out the hard way that our first and most expensive degrees were actually useless paper.
There is a lack of information for parents, coaching in highschools, and information from University to help teenagers make the right informed decisions about their future careers and how valued their degrees are in the real world of today. The unversities just want to take in as much tuition as possible.