Admiral Beez
Superstar
We're all pushing the youth to be the same. Youth are all being pushed towards university, to become drones.I'm curious Admiral why you believe individualism is in decline because I would find that thesis hard to argue?
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We're all pushing the youth to be the same. Youth are all being pushed towards university, to become drones.I'm curious Admiral why you believe individualism is in decline because I would find that thesis hard to argue?
We're all pushing the youth to be the same. Youth are all being pushed towards university, to become drones.
Kids I went to high school with were ALL pushed to go to university. This was in the 90s. I don't think I know ANYONE who wasn't.
I know that of course nowadays, there's the perception that "everyone needs a degree", but I wonder when most people would say that the push that everyone should go started.
Definitely by the late 90s and 2000's, a Bachelor's degree was no longer really that "special" and by the 2000s or so you definitely heard about the whole "overqualified" thing with the stereotypical barista at Starbucks with an philosophy degree or whatever. In the 60s and 70s at least based on what I generally hear from most people, including family members, it still made you stand out among the crowd to employers to have gone to university.
There was also Central Tech, Central Commerce etc.
Canada I believe has the highest proportion with post-secondary qualifications of any country, though not university graduates. Canada has something like twice as many people with the college diplomas as the US has with Associate's degrees.
But I think we're moving towards convergence with the US as you can now get Bachelor's degrees in things like hotel management at colleges here.
Canada I believe has the highest proportion with post-secondary qualifications of any country, though not university graduates. Canada has something like twice as many people with the college diplomas as the US has with Associate's degrees.
But I think we're moving towards convergence with the US as you can now get Bachelor's degrees in things like hotel management at colleges here.
...which is ironic given that Canadian education used to be more "humanistic" and hierarchical, and traditionalists used to look down on Americans for believing in "mass education" (college and university attendance prior to the mass 1960s university expansion was much higher in the US than anywhere else).
Going away to school is much more common in the US than here (though there are a few that fairly national student bodies such as McGill and Dalhousie), and the "college town" doesn't exist in the same way here. Places like Kingston and Guelph are cities with a university presence, but we have no equivalents to Iowa City, Urbana or Amherst, Mass.