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Why must everything have a "practical value"? Learning is its own reward. And you won't find much "practical value" in art, music, literature, or just about anything that distinguishes humanity from a mound of termites.
Why must everything have a "practical value"? Learning is its own reward. And you won't find much "practical value" in art, music, literature, or just about anything that distinguishes humanity from a mound of termites.
Because it now costs so much people can't justify the expense of learning for pleasure. Granted its probably a short term thing as https://www.coursera.org/ and their ilk provide cheaper courses.
Because it now costs so much people can't justify the expense of learning for pleasure. Granted its probably a short term thing as https://www.coursera.org/ and their ilk provide cheaper courses.
You are presuming that people doing a degree in some subject you don't value is doesn't have an economic benefit.
I think I've had this discussion before on here where I stated examples of people doing random degrees that the media hype as useless but in my example actually provided an economic benefit to the person and the economy.
"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR
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