Did anyone else find that their education didn't seem "real" to them, that it had no worth in reality?

Did anyone else find that their education didn't seem "real" to them, that it had no worth in reality?

I've ended up in my 30s in a dead end job. I tried going to college, then to university, but none of the education seemed "real". The education just didn't teach about work.

It's too late for me, but why are our education systems so pointless? Few people I know work in the sectors that they studied. Most courses today teach barely anything about work or things that matter to companies.

Isn't this surely a political scandal? How can educators get away with teaching bullshit and charging huge amounts of money for it? Why are there no standards anymore, why aren't parties trying to sort out REAL education which leads to jobs, why is no one actually talking about this?

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>It's too late for me
how?

I got a graduate degree in a humanities field, worked on a PhD for years. I know nothing of value, and the only skill I have is that I can read well.

You are both fools and deserve your fate. Its up to you to build your career, not anyone else. Sorry anons. Maybe you should have studied something that isnt utterly moronic and then bitch and moan when nothing comes out of it. A graduate degree in humanities? What did you expect? You are no better than idiot normies who think their liberal arts degree somehow warrants a six figure job.

I didn't have parents to teach me anything and was forced to go to 90 IQ public school. Then I got conned by college professors.
I thought I was a scholar making important new knowledge. I realized painfully that I was just making up bullshit.

>why are our education systems so pointless
come on then, tell us what shit degree you took

We were raised to think of college as higher learning. What we weren't told was that our institutions of higher learning were not the hallowed halls of truth they once were but rather leftist indoctrination centers that are more akin to high school 2.0 than universities. I kept waiting for it to feel like something richer and more challenging, but it never did.

The truth about any good job is that you need connections. If you dont have a relative in a respectable firm, or your school didnt provide any form of connections for you, then good luck. Todays education system is the same as in the 1900's, times have changed but school is stubborn. You learn more from private online courses (yes, even those dodgy people pushing their course on youtube). Stay at your dead end job and educate yourself in your free time, learn how to invest your money and stop spending your cash on worthless shit, buy assets, not liabilities. Also, read some books to imorove yourself, every book known to man can be found for free on google.

start your own business

Because the purpose of school is to train you to be obedient, not actually educate you.

All jobs are dead-end jobs. Most people only reach the top quintile of incomes (at least in the US) for a couple years, then they fall back down again. Economic mobility over the lifetime of an individual is actually very high, but people don't understand how to manage their lives.

you also forgot: to keep the working class free of kids during the day so they can work

I took a business degree.
And then got a good job because I took an actual qualification with real usable knowledge and skills.

Stop taking meme degrees.

>breeze through school
>miss a day a week
>sleep half the time
>make kids laugh the other half
>still come out on top
>junior year of high school
>actually have to try for once
>drop out
>spend seven years as a recluse
>feel bad for being a freeloader
>get minimum wage job to pay my family back
>an hero soon
That's my life story.

>I tried going to college
Opinion discarded

You're a poorfag idiot if you don't realize this pic
> Get certified in whatever interests you. > Build a lab at your home to gain meaningful experience.
The education system is so far behind building any competent skillsets that all it does is put you in debt.

If you're in a non-STEM field, you'll always be a poorfag

Yes its all about marxist indoctrination or just job for teachers.
Im learning about programing now for free and i am learning more shit than in college i actually would throw everything to shit , but at least collegue mantains something to sell to my family to mantain my neet lifestyle.
But still it angry me beyond belief that you can learn more shit on a free harvard course than in all fucking collegue it really is insane how much education has become nothing more than job for teachers that sometimes know less than the students.

Because originally, universities were just for science and philosophy, and for a very few. Science is applicable, and if you knew the principles of science, you could work for any company that needed someone who could think scientifically and abstractly, which was at that point in time, very fucking valuable.

Now we've seen a decline in university standards of knowledge (once, it was very fucking broad, you would major in something, but you were still required to know a lot about the rest as well), not only because of the programs, but simply because the amount of accumulated human knowledge is exceeding far more than the average human brain can posses.

Sadly, roughly half of universities are now filled with social sciences or humanities programs, that are loosely based on science, but will not provide you with any marketable skill but reading and discussing about things on a theoretical level, and due to the amount of accumulated human knowledge, often a very small sliver of it, and not specifically generalisable to other domains of work. The job market is not waiting for millions of people that read and discuss about things only on a theoretical level of very small applicable knowledge.

On top of that, most things that once needed these scientific minds have been completely replaced by automation produced by brilliant minds, rendering them obsolete.

Hell, the university was once the hallmark of human creativity, ingenuity and sheer brilliance. Now, I bet that the average university goer has no fucking clue what the scientific method is about, nor what is expected from him as a scholar or possible employee.

We've come to see university too much as a place to train people to work, but it was never that. We trained people to think in a particular manner, and that way of thinking was once valuable to companies, because the gross amount of the public was dumb as a brick.

Because you aren't treated seriously with a dead end job. No one wants to know about your shitty attempts to work in an industry. All that matters is if you can namedrop someone. That is how the world works, kiddo.

Who cares? It was a vocational subject and I never got to work in it.

Thank you that there is at least one other person on the same level.

So back to my main point. Why bother with having education in society if it is just there to teach shit? Let's just self-reflect for a second

>we have a society
>it builds schools
>they get free government grants
>but don't educate
>HURR DURR THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO EDUCATE !!!
>be the lion.jpg

There's no point in modern education systems if they are simply there to exploit without offering legitimate opportunity. If you want to question this, ask yourself, how many people are working in the areas that they studied? There you go. It's not working.

It doesn't inlearned far more with life and work during college and after my schooling than I ever learned within the bounds of traditional education.

The best stuff I learned in university was being thenpresident of a frat, that taught me how to get people to join, how to raise money, how to plan events, how to deal with beurocracy, budgeting, meetings, public presentations etc etc.

School at this point is nothuing more than a certificate; an expensive and glorified liscencing process that affirms for employers that your are capable of more complex tasks

That's all

>Why bother with having education in society if it is just there to teach shit?
They do provide a framework of competencies in life, particularly large scale subjects where there is a general syllabus of material (English, Biology, Psych). It provides a person without direction a general understanding of information

It WON'T provide competency in any area, though.

To do that, requires skill development, largely on your own.
Most computer degrees run by University programs are done to create entry level interns for their local financial organizations. Kids come out of a 4-year CIS degree program thinking they're hot shit because they know COBOL......lol
Good luck, fuckos

>It's too late for me
One note on that user - it's not too late. You're conscious of it, which is more than most people can say. I'm not rich but I'm a much better and happier person than I ever thought I could be, and that comes from within, not without.
>"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Nepotism is what matters, actual skills and knowledge do not, past a bare minimum.

School is mostly useless, except for some certain courses that focus more on practical work.
>tfw studying for electrician
>tfw apprenticeship soon
>feelsgoodman

in normal countries you go to university to become a scientist; it's supposed to be scientific, not vocational trainin

>why aren't parties trying to sort out REAL education which leads to jobs

Because difficult jobs will be automated and bottom feeding jobs are for niggers who are shipped in.
Do you know the problem with career politicians? For them it's a career and they only ever ask the same question anyone in any career ever asks, "what's in it for me?".
What was the last unironic true country that put its people first? Nazi Germany? Hitler wasn't a career politician and the country prospered immensely. That's not to say anyone who hasn't studied politics could do the same. It's merely an example of what happens when someone who isn't only out for themselves is in charge of a country.
The closest we have to that now is Trump. Trump isn't a career politician, Trump didn't have to become POTUS to make money for himself and he certainly didn't do it so people would like him. He's sacrificed himself to improve his own country. He's doing it for the greater good.
Suddenly those Hitler parallels take on an entirely different meaning as does why (((they))) are so panicky about it. How do you bribe a billionaire with money and how do you dig up dirt on someone who has no skeletons in the closet?
Protip: You can't.

I studied Philosophy at the University (Master's degree), totally worthless degree. I live in Eastern Europe... and make 10 thousand euro a month. Stop whining.. just forget about your education and look for opportuntiies in other fields... learn to adapt and evolve.

seems legit

I'd be fine with 30k salary with my liberal arts degree desu, I just want to stand in a museum and teach people that history matters.

People who get liberal arts degrees just need to have realistic expectations about what they can do with their degree. Of course 90 percent of the work you do is going to be bullshit, but if you use the time to formulate an action plan and work with the college's career dept, you could easily be making 30-35k after a few years doing something you really enjoy.

Work experience is so much more important than grad school in liberal arts these days, so unless you want to teach, I don't know why anyone would decide graduate school is a good idea.

>I don't know why anyone would decide graduate school is a good idea.
They don't know what to do. My MA was actually great for the way I think and my reading and writing skills, but it just doesn't offer specific knowledge needed for most jobs. I hated teaching. Students are lazy fools in the US. They think learning is punishment.

I'm actually finishing up a bachelor's right now, as soon as my advisor mentioned grad school, I shut him down. It doesn't even matter what you do after school, anything is better than getting jewed further and losing years of potential experience/income.
Like I said, people have unrealistic expectations about what their degree will get them. I'm working to learn the trade aspect of my field in addition to getting a degree, because the work my degree will qualify me for is not consistent enough to rely on it completely.

Universities have no competition and are given so much on tax breaks and "rducation" funds. Imagine if all they had to go by was their alumnis. They'd have solid curriculums overnight.

That is, universities are perpetuating slave mentality.

Universities need to have a mandate to place people into jobs. If they take thousands of dollars from us then it is there job to educate us and get us an entry level job in the field we studied. If they can't do that then they cannot accept more students. The college scam needs to come to an end or start actually doing what its meant to do.

I'm glad I got my MA. It was worth a lot more than my BA. It was intense, no BS and I worked 70+ hour weeks while I was still in the guard. I taught for a few years after and then started a PhD. Huge mistake. It was a step down in difficulty from my MA. Lots of freaks and angry women who couldn't accept that they are dumb. Out to change the world cause they're angry. I just wanted to do research and write, but identity politics was thrown at me everyday. Wish I would have just went to law school.

>It's too late for me, but why are our education systems so pointless?

That's a question with a horrifying answer. It's something that Jordan Peterson talks about.

>youtu.be/JjfClL6nogo?t=328

Another angle beyond this is the fact that Leftist intellectuals have a desire to destroy Western culture, traditions, heritage, and history. They do this mainly because Westernism strongly resists socialism/communism, which is the pseudo-religious utopian vision of the Leftists. Due to this resistance, Leftists are working around the clock to "deconstruct" Western culture through intellectual terrorism (look up "intersectional shakedown"), cultural terrorism, Maoist self-criticism strategies, violence, intimidation, and through a variety of other methods, all of which are most clearly seen in the universities.

Effectively, the Leftist intellectuals want the education system to be pointless, so that it can produce hollowed out, empty, and ideologically programmed drones who are resentful. This creates drones who want to burn everything beautiful and successful to the ground. The Leftist hope is that their utopia will arise once everything is destroyed.

Here's a good video....

>youtube.com/watch?v=bChKoll81r4

Mine was. I was suppsed to be taught skills, but all they did was feed me bullshit with some tinkering here and there. And now I have a diploma at a profession I can't really do very well, all thanks to lazy teachers.

>huuurrr u shouldn't of taken liberal arts har har har
STEM is just rote memorization of forgettable trivia. The degree is just a signal to an employer that you're less of a risk that the person without one. University does not train you, give you work experience, and end up with a relelvant skill set at the end of it all. OP is completely right.