“Your skills are obsolete every five years but we still pretend college at 18 prepares you for life.”
Agree
- Continuous learning is only viable model now
- Education system designed for industrial age jobs
- Degree signals compliance more than capability
- Real skills learned on job, not classroom
Disagree
- Foundational thinking skills transcend specific technologies
- College teaches learning how to learn anything
- Credentials still open doors experience can't
- Liberal arts create adaptable broad thinkers
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