This article goes way too far in its conclusions. It points out some real problems with American universities (and makes some specious claims about their history), then generalizes this to saying that all universities must be destroyed. There are myriad countries that have both a strong university system and a strong vocational system and don't saddle any student with a mountain of debt. Don't mistake the dysfunction of the USA for something fundamental about The World and All Human History.
>In 2020, every white-collar business and college in the country pivoted over to distance work and distance learning because of Covid-19. This was arguably going to happen over the next decade anyway, but fear of germs caused it to happen in a year. As colleges struggle to reopen during Covid, students who are used to distance learning anyway struggle to understand why they have to pay exorbitant tuitions for a campus they never see, nor in fact need in any way, if their goal is to get the piece of paper. Chop.
I am going to assume this person has never taken online classes. They're horrible. I have never met a person who likes them.
>A wealth of free code boot camp options have erupted in the past two years, where you can receive every necessary educational element to become a computer programmer at no cost, the boot camp helps place you in a job,
The problem here is that programming computers is dead easy but we've convinced people it's on par with engineering or medicine. We are training scientists when we need technicians. Why teach people computer architecture if they'll only write Javascript? Why teach them operating systems if they'll run everying in V8? Why teach them algorithms if they'll only write CRUD apps and glue code? The long-term effect of bootcamps will be, I am pretty sure, not to dismantle universities but to drive down the salaries of programmers.
>and then you pay them on the back end as a portion of your salary. No debt is ever accrued.
that is literally what debt is what are you talking about
>In 2020, every white-collar business and college in the country pivoted over to distance work and distance learning because of Covid-19. This was arguably going to happen over the next decade anyway, but fear of germs caused it to happen in a year. As colleges struggle to reopen during Covid, students who are used to distance learning anyway struggle to understand why they have to pay exorbitant tuitions for a campus they never see, nor in fact need in any way, if their goal is to get the piece of paper. Chop.
I am going to assume this person has never taken online classes. They're horrible. I have never met a person who likes them.
>A wealth of free code boot camp options have erupted in the past two years, where you can receive every necessary educational element to become a computer programmer at no cost, the boot camp helps place you in a job,
The problem here is that programming computers is dead easy but we've convinced people it's on par with engineering or medicine. We are training scientists when we need technicians. Why teach people computer architecture if they'll only write Javascript? Why teach them operating systems if they'll run everying in V8? Why teach them algorithms if they'll only write CRUD apps and glue code? The long-term effect of bootcamps will be, I am pretty sure, not to dismantle universities but to drive down the salaries of programmers.
>and then you pay them on the back end as a portion of your salary. No debt is ever accrued.
that is literally what debt is what are you talking about