This is an absolutely genuine question, but, Ummm. How is what UATX doing remotely innovative? It was hard to discern how it’s not merely repackaging a 2+ Major BA from a good liberal arts school as something cool & different.
So, like, for instance: Learning the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
Yo.
Isn’t this Philosophy 101 - General Credit? If you haven’t had to struggle through that issue extensively by the time you get done with Aristotle, well, you haven’t been doing your homework assignments.
Similarly, small class sizes?
Uhhh. Yeah. That’s another thing liberal arts colleges sell themselves on. e.g., my recollection is that average class size at my college was 5 or less students. And terminal degrees in the faculty? It’s pretty much always 100%.
Liberal arts: I went in as a creative type & afraid of math. And I came out doing hardcore calculations way better than most, while also being creative — understanding that when we tell ourselves & others that they either lean left brain or right brain, we are telling a disempowering lie.
Liberal arts teaches you to be both. Or you missed the God Damned point.
Then, after having been at one of these lowly ranked liberal arts schools, I crushed all the requirements to go to an ultra elite law school on the east coast.
And that’s where I learned stupid shit, like, there are minor economic inefficiencies in the tort system. So we should all become communists.
I think the problem is group think.
And the answer is anything that teaches you to burn through the bullshit.
Kindle can do that too.
It’s worth adding this potshot that happens to be incredibly true: The dumbest lawyers I know are tenured professors at elite law schools. They create notoriety for themselves for taking stupid positions and defending their absurdities relentlessly. That’s often what attracts attention. Not, you know, being thoughtful and willing to listen.
I dunno. Life. Just life. If you pay attention in life, you tend to see that the elite schools offer you a few things: (A) Friendships that can be very valuable to you in your professional life, (B) A strong brand that people think represents excellence, and (C) A pretty shitty education offered by professors that don’t actually want to teach you.
It’s all about the brand and maintaining the revenue generation machine. But it might actually be worth the terrible education if you are a self-starter because the network you create in those years can be differentiating. However, don’t think for a second that you are smarter or better than someone else because of how effective your school is at branding itself.
This is an absolutely genuine question, but, Ummm. How is what UATX doing remotely innovative? It was hard to discern how it’s not merely repackaging a 2+ Major BA from a good liberal arts school as something cool & different.
So, like, for instance: Learning the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
Yo.
Isn’t this Philosophy 101 - General Credit? If you haven’t had to struggle through that issue extensively by the time you get done with Aristotle, well, you haven’t been doing your homework assignments.
Similarly, small class sizes?
Uhhh. Yeah. That’s another thing liberal arts colleges sell themselves on. e.g., my recollection is that average class size at my college was 5 or less students. And terminal degrees in the faculty? It’s pretty much always 100%.
Liberal arts: I went in as a creative type & afraid of math. And I came out doing hardcore calculations way better than most, while also being creative — understanding that when we tell ourselves & others that they either lean left brain or right brain, we are telling a disempowering lie.
Liberal arts teaches you to be both. Or you missed the God Damned point.
Then, after having been at one of these lowly ranked liberal arts schools, I crushed all the requirements to go to an ultra elite law school on the east coast.
And that’s where I learned stupid shit, like, there are minor economic inefficiencies in the tort system. So we should all become communists.
I think the problem is group think.
And the answer is anything that teaches you to burn through the bullshit.
Kindle can do that too.
It’s worth adding this potshot that happens to be incredibly true: The dumbest lawyers I know are tenured professors at elite law schools. They create notoriety for themselves for taking stupid positions and defending their absurdities relentlessly. That’s often what attracts attention. Not, you know, being thoughtful and willing to listen.
I dunno. Life. Just life. If you pay attention in life, you tend to see that the elite schools offer you a few things: (A) Friendships that can be very valuable to you in your professional life, (B) A strong brand that people think represents excellence, and (C) A pretty shitty education offered by professors that don’t actually want to teach you.
It’s all about the brand and maintaining the revenue generation machine. But it might actually be worth the terrible education if you are a self-starter because the network you create in those years can be differentiating. However, don’t think for a second that you are smarter or better than someone else because of how effective your school is at branding itself.
Because then you are buying the bullshit.
Just FYI, "Cracks in the Ivory Tower" is the title of a book by Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness. I bet you'd like it.