Barron on Atheist Intelligentsia
This week’s lecture of the week is a conjecturous little documentary called College Conspiracy, about the past, present, and future of college education. It has a good deal of assertions that are taken for granted (and plenty that I can find to disagree with), but the overall theme – that college education is becoming a financial drain with very few benefits for young adults – is of course more true by the day. College has become, in many cases, a place for young adults to go and drink their lives away and put off entering the workforce for a few years; a place where we are taught not so much how to think as what to think, and where we are not only not guaranteed a decent job afterward, but one where we are almost sure to need further education (and debt) or lots of connections…
So here it is. There is a lame little pitch for the last 3 minutes of the film about subscribing to a newsletter that you can ignore, but for the most part this is a good wake-up call:
As a recent law school grad, I can agree with the part about law school for the most part. Most of the kids there were there to put off the real world for a little more time (and some still are by trying for their LLMs). And with the way the job market is looking for lawyers, one might assume that the shrinking of legal demand has already began…