Students get academics to write their essays for €50 an hour

Tomagotchye wrote: »

People saying that things you learn aren't worth anything in a job. This is a lie. Maybe you do not use the knowledge consciously but it's possible you do unconsciously. Sometimes learning the theory helps to better understand the practice and vice versa. Regardless, it's not necessarily about what you learn (in some disciplines it's about how you learn it). I did history and no I didn't learn anything useful for my current job but I have to say the information retention skills I developed doing exams, and the research skills I developed doing essays and thesis were very handy in adapting to new fields easily because I knew exactly what to learn and how to apply it - unlike many others who learned bits and parts, here and there.

On the plus side I had a knowledge of where we had been and where we are going. Learning about my country from an unbias perspective has helped me to treat all news with a bias apparel which is certainly something I would encourage in a world where everyone falls into line with political ideology. Education isn't about preparing you for work (anyone can work)...it's about preparing you for life/society with the benefit of having a skill for work.

Equally, just because you learn something that isn't of "worth" doesn't mean it doesn't have value. I'm tired of students thinking their above it. This is a major problem and something I'm guilty of myself. Information is power, you can trade it and you can use it.