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ELON: UNIVERSITIES OFTEN PROPAGANDIZE KIDS INSTEAD OF TEACHING THEM USEFUL THINGS “I do think that too often, people do a university or college thing for 4 years, and it's unnecessary. They accrue a lot of debt, and it's hard to pay off the debt. And they often don't learn... skills that are very useful. I think we should really reconsider whether going to college actually makes sense. I think it doesn't always. People also forget, what's the point of going to school in general? You're supposed to learn useful things, improve your understanding of the world, and learn skills that can help you contribute to your fellow human beings. But very often, a university does the opposite. It will propagandize kids and not teach them anything useful, and just saddle them with a lot of debt. So, I think, what really matters is, are you doing something useful to help your fellow human beings? Are you contributing more than you take? If you are, that's a great thing.” Source: Lancaster, Pennsylvania October 26, 2024, Elon Muskshow more

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Cheesecake1 year ago

Education has become indoctrination. We need to reverse that and start teaching practical and applicable skills that will lead to actual jobs and not to an ethereal job that may never materialize.

Zaki Solja1 year ago

The universities have done a great disservice to students.

BitMemes Daily1 year ago

Elon Is A Legend 💯🔥

Warrior Jay1 year ago

Universities are becoming more obsolete as they propagandize

M6274241 year ago

Yes i agree with you 💯

StateOfTheDebate1 year ago

Elon’s right, universities may be handing out debt, but not always the tools to pay it off!

jen1 year ago

I know many people who went to college, didn’t end up going onto a career, and the college offered so many of those degrees, that thousands of people end up fighting over a position that only opens up every couple of years. So not only are they paying debt for the rest of their lives, the skills not applicable to reality, the college sold the degree to more people than jobs are actually available.

Dave W1 year ago

This is not new information. Students are deciding to take on enormous debt to fund their partying and then whine and scream injustice when it’s time to pay it back.

SnaG1 year ago

Yeah! I saw that…

Lee Redmond1 year ago

Schools don’t teach you about credit, investing, how to pay bills. Nothing of value even history is being taught poorly nothing about nikola Tesla but they’ll teach about Edison who invented nothing just stole everything

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