FuzzX
Master Don Juan
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I have to say this, I've been doing uni online now for well over 5 years. I'm most of the way complete and so far my experience has been nothing short of total frustration. I thought I could dodge the political discussions by taking the degree online but it seems there is simply no way around academic arrogance. Unless you are taking a pure math or science degree, there is simply no reason to go back to university. I wish I had instead faked my degree.
Let me explain.
When I was in my twenties I took a week long course called a TESOL. They shipped me out to Korea, then I later skipped from Brazil to Japan and then on to Mexico and China. I didn't have a degree but that didn't stop me from getting gigs teaching English. I worked hard trying to learn new ways to get through to my students and find pieces of media and present them in a way that would be interesting for them. I spent about 17 years in this job so one might call it a career? Apparently not as having a BA is what is confers the 'teacher' status upon you. Well I finally decided to go for the BA and get my wings. Fast forward nearly 6 years later. I have yet to learn ONE thing that would help me teach an ESL class better. Although, I have learned that people with degrees for the most part are fvcking retards. I have learned that most people who are in university can hardly take care of themselves and have the most un-informed opinions of anyone I've ever met. The professors have ZERO life experience and grade you based upon their own political leanings and what a book tells them to. After having enough of 'returned' and 'failed' assignments in political science, sociology and 'communications' because I didn't hold the Marxist opinions of my 'betters', I changed over into a B'Ed program (Education). You would think that a program in education would be about teaching techniques and theories on classroom management, but you would be mistaken. No, education is squarely about teaching Marxist theory to lower life-forms and writing essays on self hate and LGBT. After 10 courses of white guilt, Marxist theory, Anti-capitalism and MORE COMMUNISM, I got fed up and changed into pure STEM.
You'd think that would change things right? Think again. The people who run these courses are 'high level thinkers' with very little in the way of people skills or industry experience. They might as well have been machines because their responses to assignments consisted of nothing more than binary answers to abstract questions. If I submitted a proposal for a project, I would get a series of abstract denials but no actual pinpoint responses. Want clarification to a technique or process? Forget it, they will just point you to the text book as though you never considered reading it. Everything I learned I could have taught myself FOR FREE.
Business courses were run by MBA's who had only a modicum of business experience as possibly a manager or low level employee. Entrepreneurial courses? Failed. Why? Didn't incorporate meaningless HR survey speak. Didn't include references to diversity quotas. Don't lean to the left FAR enough. None of this makes business sense, infact it lends credence to the theory of 'Get Woke Go Broke'. There is very little in the way of true soft skills, just corporate nonsense and busy work.
If you go to university, you are not getting industry professionals as your teachers, you are getting professional failures. The only thing these people are good at is reading and regurgitating. They can never provide meaningful feedback because they have none.
Would you let an AFC teach you how to be a PUA? No? Then why would you let a Academic derelict tell you how to run a business...
If I can offer one piece of advice, if you want to be well read, go to the library for a year. If you want to learn to code, start now by building a game or an app. If you want to learn to teach, get a TESOL and GO do it. If you want to learn how to debate, arm yourself with FACTS and go to the DNC.
If you want to learn to fail, get a Bachelor's Degree.
Let me explain.
When I was in my twenties I took a week long course called a TESOL. They shipped me out to Korea, then I later skipped from Brazil to Japan and then on to Mexico and China. I didn't have a degree but that didn't stop me from getting gigs teaching English. I worked hard trying to learn new ways to get through to my students and find pieces of media and present them in a way that would be interesting for them. I spent about 17 years in this job so one might call it a career? Apparently not as having a BA is what is confers the 'teacher' status upon you. Well I finally decided to go for the BA and get my wings. Fast forward nearly 6 years later. I have yet to learn ONE thing that would help me teach an ESL class better. Although, I have learned that people with degrees for the most part are fvcking retards. I have learned that most people who are in university can hardly take care of themselves and have the most un-informed opinions of anyone I've ever met. The professors have ZERO life experience and grade you based upon their own political leanings and what a book tells them to. After having enough of 'returned' and 'failed' assignments in political science, sociology and 'communications' because I didn't hold the Marxist opinions of my 'betters', I changed over into a B'Ed program (Education). You would think that a program in education would be about teaching techniques and theories on classroom management, but you would be mistaken. No, education is squarely about teaching Marxist theory to lower life-forms and writing essays on self hate and LGBT. After 10 courses of white guilt, Marxist theory, Anti-capitalism and MORE COMMUNISM, I got fed up and changed into pure STEM.
You'd think that would change things right? Think again. The people who run these courses are 'high level thinkers' with very little in the way of people skills or industry experience. They might as well have been machines because their responses to assignments consisted of nothing more than binary answers to abstract questions. If I submitted a proposal for a project, I would get a series of abstract denials but no actual pinpoint responses. Want clarification to a technique or process? Forget it, they will just point you to the text book as though you never considered reading it. Everything I learned I could have taught myself FOR FREE.
Business courses were run by MBA's who had only a modicum of business experience as possibly a manager or low level employee. Entrepreneurial courses? Failed. Why? Didn't incorporate meaningless HR survey speak. Didn't include references to diversity quotas. Don't lean to the left FAR enough. None of this makes business sense, infact it lends credence to the theory of 'Get Woke Go Broke'. There is very little in the way of true soft skills, just corporate nonsense and busy work.
If you go to university, you are not getting industry professionals as your teachers, you are getting professional failures. The only thing these people are good at is reading and regurgitating. They can never provide meaningful feedback because they have none.
Would you let an AFC teach you how to be a PUA? No? Then why would you let a Academic derelict tell you how to run a business...
If I can offer one piece of advice, if you want to be well read, go to the library for a year. If you want to learn to code, start now by building a game or an app. If you want to learn to teach, get a TESOL and GO do it. If you want to learn how to debate, arm yourself with FACTS and go to the DNC.
If you want to learn to fail, get a Bachelor's Degree.