Is it education or social engineering? Where to educate is from the latin Educere : 'lead out'.~~ So its about leading out, not herding into sheds.

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educated

/ˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/

adjective

adjective: educated

1. having been educated.

   "a Harvard-educated lawyer"

   • resulting from or having had a good education.

     "educated tastes"

     synonyms:

     informed, literate, schooled, tutored, well informed, well read, learned, knowledgeable, intellectually aware, enlightened, discerning, discriminating; More

     antonyms:

     uneducated

educate

/ˈɛdjʊkeɪt/

verb

past tense: educated; past participle: educated

1. give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone), typically at a school or university.

   "she was educated at a boarding school"

   synonyms:

   teach, school, tutor, instruct, coach, train, upskill, drill, prime, prepare, guide, inform, enlighten, edify, cultivate, develop, inculcate, indoctrinate, improve, better, uplift, elevate "they decided to educate Edward at home"

   • provide or pay for instruction for (one's child), especially at a school.

     "she had crises of conscience about how best to educate her youngest child"
   • give (someone) training in or information on a particular subject.

     "a plan to educate the young on the dangers of drugs"

Origin

late Middle English: from Latin educat- ‘led out’, from the verb educare, related to educere ‘lead out’ (see educe).

To bring out.

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educe

/ɪˈdjuːs/

verb

FORMAL

verb: educe; 3rd person present: educes; past tense: educed; past participle: educed; gerund or present participle: educing

1. bring out or develop (something latent or potential).

   "out of love obedience is to be educed"

   • infer (something) from data.

     "more information can be educed from these statistics"

Origin

late Middle English: from Latin educere ‘lead out’, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out’ + ducere ‘to lead’.

Is a degree still worth it?

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Exploding student debt and increased competition have made earning a bachelor’s degree a less likely path to financial security, Bloomberg reports. While more Americans than ever have the four-year degree — about one-third — they made less last year in real terms than in 1990, according to a New York Federal Reserve survey. While eight in 10 baby boomers say the value of their degrees outweighed its cost, only half of those under the age of 30 felt the same.

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A Degree May Be Necessary in America, But Maybe Not Sufficient

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A college degree is merely a receipt. It is proof of conforming to societal norms. Young adults are saddled with more student loan debt than ever ($37,000+ on average). As a result, young adults nowadays are having fewer kids and buying homes less often, even though they want to do these things. Colleges are richer than ever, constructing tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new buildings, stadiums, and rec centers (sound familiar, Florida Gulf Coast University?). This is all funded by our student loan debt. Oh, and the material and syllabi are decades outdated. Grades are an illusion. Cheating is rampant. Many (not all) of the professors have not done the thing they are teaching (or merely reading word for word from McGraw-Hill's generic, cookie-cutter slides). Schools are teaching meaningless degrees and charging six figures for them, preparing us for jobs that either don't exist or won't exist very soon (robots are becoming the new middle class). In the words of my latest guest on the Growth Mindset University podcast, Ron Carucci, higher education is a crumbling empire. If it is not going to fix itself, then crumble faster and get out of the way because we have people to train for this progressive new age of business and life.

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