fuck this guy very much 🖕🏻
students aren't the only ones pushing back. many professors who care about our students are doing the same.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-premier-defends-osap-cuts-9.7095738
like i said, fuck this guy very much🖕🏻
he has no business telling young people what to study or not study at university or college.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/osap-changes-deterring-students-9.7096442
“The taxpayers expect the students to go through courses that are going to drive economic growth,”
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No, I don't. And even for that, his reasoning is wrong.
I took computer science but in two years, almost everything I learned was obsolete.
I also took philosophy; basket-weaving in Ford‘s mind.
That's what enabled me to be the technical lead for projects worth $100s of millions. The ability to understand social systems as a whole and synthesize needs of clients with advice from technical experts.
Two of my mentors for senior positions had degrees in English.
Further, it gave me additional skills in understanding political systems, to be a well-informed critical thinker and participant in democratic processes, surely an aspect of life that should also be a focus of our education systems.
Ford knows nothing. Even if he took a course on Plato’s 2,300 year-old *Republic* that would improve his reasoning a lot.
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@EricLawton Forgive me, but I will start my support for your thesis by recounting a plot from the famous "All Creatures Great and Small" stories and television show.
The times are changing, and there are new antibiotics available that didn't exist when the vets went to school. Their usual chemist representative (aka "Veterinary Medicine Salesman") is a fussy, always correct older man who works for a two hundred year-old firm.
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@EricLawton Meanwhile, a young rep from a new firm is trying to win their business. So they decide to give the young man a chance. he's young, he gets the new stuff, times are changing.
Well... The young man is all talk, but in the end the new drugs are very much in demand and he can't get any for their Yorkshire practice.
In desperation, they go back to the old guy who has served them well for decades.
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Old guy is reassuring even though they pepper him with questions. He promises to look into it. No, he doesn't have any to sell right now, but he'll talk to someone he knows.
They wait, sure that he will also come up empty. But he shows up with the drugs and saves the day.
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@adub
@EricLawton They have him over for dinner, and ask:
"How did you get the drugs? We didn't think you'd manage to handle the changes going on."
He smiles and helps himself to another plate of food. "I find," he says calmly, "That the things that matter the most are the things that change the least."
And what would those be, they ask.
"People."
end scene.
