Yale-Educated Lupita Nyong’o Admits She Never Heard of ‘The Odyssey’ Before Helen of Troy Casting

[EdwinAMartin]

No surprise there. I spit on Yale, as possibly the worst rip off of money for "education" right next to Harvard.

These two universities are spit. A total rip off living off past glories.

You can get a better education in Europe for 1/10th the price.

I have two grandkids in AB schools, one in Switzerland, one in Belgium. Both are excellent. Haven't looked at the costs compared to here but I don't doubt they're cheaper.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

I wasn’t “exposed” to the Odyssey at age 12, but somehow I had heard of it. I also hadn’t started reading Shakespeare at age 12, but I had heard of him as well.

Of course, I was a gifted student and quite intelligent.

Sure you were Lisa Young, gifted and Black huh lol.

 

[toobfreak]

Yup, my daughter is attending ETH Zurich and has an internship at Ferrari coming her way!

Ferrara?

 

[rosends]

Of course it follows. If a college has incredible curriculum, and incredible professors, that equates to great outcomes and high paying jobs.

If you spend a ton, to end up working at a Starbucks, with debt out the wazoo, that ISN'T a good outcome, so people stop going to a college that churns out useless drones.

Unfortunately, the cost of liberal arts schools has exploded and more students are focusing on pre professional tracks. A great education doesn't equal a great job.

 

[rosends]

Used to. They don't now. Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League aren't anything to brag about either, just a place to network and meet other halfwits with high self-esteem. MIT is still viable, but it tends to not screen out the crazies enough, though it still limits the number of foreign students it admits, which is good.

Used to what? While many parents are questioning the value of a 150k plus degree, many still see it is valuable.

 

[Lisa558]

Sure you were Lisa Young, gifted and Black huh lol.

I never said I was black. But I of course was once young, and placed in the gifted classes. That probably also explains why it wasn’t surprising why I graduated the top of my class and Phi Beta Kappa.

No need to figure out ridiculous ways to insult me. You make yourself look even more ridiculous.

 

[westwall]

Unfortunately, the cost of liberal arts schools has exploded and more students are focusing on pre professional tracks. A great education doesn't equal a great job.

It should.

 

[westwall]

Used to what? While many parents are questioning the value of a 150k plus degree, many still see it is valuable.

Why? If it doesn't lead to a good job, that pays well, then that "education" is nothing more than a grift on the part of the school.

 

[westwall]

Ferrara?

Ferrari, as in the race car team.

 

[rosends]

Why? If it doesn't lead to a good job, that pays well, then that "education" is nothing more than a grift on the part of the school.

my parents valued a quality education. Grad school was for pre-professional. As such, I have a broader liberal arts/humanities background than my kids do. We decided that it made no sense to send them to a liberal arts school because we didn't have the kind of money available that my parents had.

 

[Mac-7]

Yeah, that's why people clamor from all over the world to come to the U.S. to study and get their college degrees <eye roll>

They get a piece of paper

But if they want a useful education they better stick to the STEM subjects

Otherwise a diploma is all they get

 

[westwall]

my parents valued a quality education. Grad school was for pre-professional. As such, I have a broader liberal arts/humanities background than my kids do. We decided that it made no sense to send them to a liberal arts school because we didn't have the kind of money available that my parents had.

A quality education that saddles you with debt, that you can never repay isn't a quality education. It's a useless education that benefits only the school, and it's staff.

 

[rosends]

A quality education that saddles you with debt, that you can never repay isn't a quality education.

I graduated with no student debt. My parents paid off my wife's debt as well.

It's a useless education that benefits only the school, and it's staff.

I happen to think a well educated populace benefits the whole community.

 

[westwall]

I graduated with no student debt. My parents paid off my wife's debt as well.

I happen to think a well educated populace benefits the whole community.

A well educated one does. The question is define a good education. Gender studies is a useless field. Art history, unless you are going to be a curator, is likewise mostly useless. Why pay for degrees that are useless?

 

[Lisa558]

I graduated with no student debt. My parents paid off my wife's debt as well.

Sounds like your parents prepared for good careers.

I happen to think a well educated populace benefits the whole community.

Not if we have 75% of the college graduates “educated” in liberal arts majors that prepare one to work at Starbucks and qualify for food stamps.

What benefits the whole community is having a populace educated in roles that allow them to be self-sufficent (be it though a career-oriented major or a vocational program). Two of my friends each have daughters who majored is sociology, and are now still living at home, supported by their parents, at age 30.

 

[Knuckles Z]

Wow, that doesn't say much good about a Yale education.

 

[Zincwarrior]

They don't what?

Greek language and culture did not come from Judah. It pre-existed them.
The Philistines with their superior iron and crafts were Greek colonists (the Peleset).

 

[Zincwarrior]

A quality education that saddles you with debt, that you can never repay isn't a quality education. It's a useless education that benefits only the school, and it's staff.

If they are going to Yale their future is assured. Any debt they have will be paid off in two years.

 

[westwall]

If they are going to Yale their future is assured. Any debt they have will be paid off in two years.

No it isn't. There are plenty of yalies who are barely scraping by. Out of her graduating class the majority are making less than 50k per year. Most professional actors make the equivalent of minimum wage.

 

[Zincwarrior]

No it isn't. There are plenty of yalies who are barely scraping by. Out of her graduating class the majority are making less than 50k per year. Most professional actors make the equivalent of minimum wage.

OK sure. Your opinion is noted.