25 years old and deep in debt

[Ideologue]

What value would you say it has, in dollars?

At its core, that is the anti-intellectual question.

You don't have the luxury to say school has infinite value or unquantifiable value because it has a quantifiable cost. There is nothing anti-intellectual about Ide's point, only pragmatic.

Yeah, another variant of the anti-intellectual argument.  Rather than attack education why not turn your mind to the way it is funded?

We did.

[Ideologue]

Teaching the youth of the nation logistics is a thankless job.

Is that your subject?  I kind of wish I'd done my undergrad in something like that, even specifically logistics.  You're okay.

[PDH]

I am an adjunct and I hope to die at 83 warped and twisted.  Of course, I have a full time job too with benefits, but that is beside the point.

[Ed Anger]

Teaching the youth of the nation logistics is a thankless job.

Is that your subject?  I kind of wish I'd done my undergrad in something like that, even specifically logistics.  You're okay.

Supply Chain Management. Fun part? Didn't go to college for it. But I get to teach it at a community college. 

[crazy canuck]

I am an adjunct and I hope to die at 83 warped and twisted.  Of course, I have a full time job too with benefits, but that is beside the point.

The only things I am missing are being an adjunct and getting to 83.

[MadImmortalMan]

We did.

Yes, but I've never attacked education anyway. Only school and the way it's paid for. The two things are very different. Education is free and has infinite value. School isn't.

[Ideologue]

Supply Chain Management. Fun part? Didn't go to college for it. But I get to teach it at a community college. 

Well, you're a Boomer.

[Ed Anger]

Supply Chain Management. Fun part? Didn't go to college for it. But I get to teach it at a community college. 

Well, you're a Boomer.

You mean highly motivated not be be on food stamps again? Yep.

[CountDeMoney]

I really need something to fall on my leg.  Cat's just not doing it.

[Admiral Yi]

Yeah, another variant of the anti-intellectual argument.  Rather than attack education why not turn your mind to the way it is funded?

MiM is right.  The only way you can construe cost/benefit analysis of education as anti-intellectual is if you posit an infinite value for intellectualism.

[Ideologue]

I think you mean the MiM-Ide Thesis is right.

[Ideologue]

Btw, I really do love Old Economy Steve.  They're not all winners--of course--but there's some seriously good ones.

[Admiral Yi]

I think you mean the MiM-Ide Thesis is right.

Actually I mean the Yi thesis if you want to get picky about it Mr. I Need Affirmation.  I was the first one to propose ending student loans for non-marketable majors.

[Ideologue]

Well, on the plus side, if Yi and me agree, it means it's probably true.

[CountDeMoney]

I was the first one to propose ending student loans for non-marketable majors.

Not too different from ending food stamps for non-marketable minors.