Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
I firmly think there is a sea change going on from standard “college” degrees to more practical training that will be a mix of apprenticeship and solid training like air&#x2F;vac, electricians and online skills, since the vast majority of jobs don’t really need a college degree.<p>This has actually begun already at the high school level.<p>Once again I believe net&#x2F;net the beer virus will be positive for America in the long run - even if only on the educational level.<p>Some will insist that a portion of the population will be disenfranchised and that is true.<p>But our education assumptions and priorities have been wrong for so long now that it has actually become the weakness of an entire generation for the last 10-20 years.<p>Just think of it! In a few months we are completely re-examining the utility of taking out a student loan that many cannot pay back in their working lifetimes.<p>We’re looking and complaining if colleges will go online or reopen in person classes - but there is so much more going underneath that conversation.<p>This is maybe (hopefully) the last generation of the “underwater basket weaving” so-called useless degrees.