What’s a degree?Fucking seanad though. The state of it. Can't even vote if you have a degree from the wrong university.
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What’s a degree?Fucking seanad though. The state of it. Can't even vote if you have a degree from the wrong university.
JUST ANOTHER BOX TO TICK ON YOUR WAY TO A GOOD JOBWhat’s a degree?
Fucking seanad though. The state of it. Can't even vote if you have a degree from the wrong university.
Great post.I find the whole philosophical side of it fascinating tbh. Trigger warning: Don't have a degree, cant vote in this thing.
Like the same debates roll out across twitter/social media on each lap of the seanad - elitist, undemocratic etc etc. I kinda think that if people object these tropes should have to be dug into. Like does it suggest a person has zero faith in third level education as a step up in life, a value?
There is also the valid argument that the peope who get degrees are people who can afford to get degrees. I'd like to very conveniently ignore that because my curiousity is on the societal value of education, the meritocratic side of things. I'm not really argueing with you, I just think its a good one for sitting about pretending your are plato in an imaginary hemi circular mini ampitheatre.
Great post.
I'd argue that in order for third level education to be any kind of philosophical step up in life or giver of value, i.e. instilling a wisdom for use in voting for the ostensibly more abstract "upper" house of parliament, it has to be treated as education should be treated butIrish universities increasingly treat it as a business with students as customers and degrees as product.UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
I don't know enough to say whether the Seanad should definitely be abolished or not but I suspect it should be.
Can't look at the 'horn for' thread in work.
I have two votesFucking seanad though. The state of it. Can't even vote if you have a degree from the wrong university.
Correct. TCD for the education, Maynooth for the priests.Maynooth and Trinity ?
JUST ANOTHER BOX TO TICK ON YOUR WAY TO A GOOD JOB
For what it's worth, I sympathize. I don't know what is worse, the idea that the "the arts" aren't technical or the idea that they're only for smug pricks looking down on the riff-raff who don't spend all day reading Derrida.One more complaint, seeing as I'm complaining.
The other thing that fucks me off a bit about doing computery type stuff is the: Oh you technical people, you just understand this stuff! It's easy for you, you take care of that!
No one just understands that stuff. I learned it, and it was miserable. I spent hours and hours, staring at it, for months, years, went to college for it, obsessively going over it, and going back over it, reading more books, because you're always wrong, and if you're not wrong you're doing it in a shitty way.
So you have these two extremes, you have the people that know about what colour shimmery paint they like and therefore understand cars.
And there's the people tell you it's very easy, they obviously couldn't do it since they aren't technical, but it IS easy, and since you're technical you know this and will have it finished by 4-ish.
what are they using for web filtering?The new IT nerds in werk have blocked Thumped.
PrickShieldwhat are they using for web filtering?
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