âInfallible,â but I otherwise note your point, although it is tempered with a near-universal appreciation that undergraduate degrees in the humanities arenât the best route to making it big on Bay St.
I graduated more than 20 years ago with a BSc in Computer Science & Physics with a minor in Economics and a fairly strong loading of English, History, Political Science and Psychology electives, and while you personally think your humanities were a forced waste of time and money, I appreciate the value I received from mine. I dare say I use elements of those more than my principal studiesâ disciplines. So there you have it...two data points in the larger discussion. Others, like Mr. Campbell, have noted where knowledge and education beyond pure technical functionality has its place...good luck to you when 1s and 0s arenât the most important issue being discussed.
Bit of an ironic charge, given the âjobs for allâ nature of socialist/communist society of the East, no?
Not far from the populationâs gender split ratio and the gender ratio in the public service. So what is the point you want us to infer from your generic used allegation?
Your badly out of date perception of academia? Ruled by 80-year old male single-published tenured profs? Come on. In 2019, 41% of university professors in Canada were women (13% in 1970) [
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Any support to the âstale old modelâ accusation. Stats (as noted above) donât seem to support your charge.
A few things here indicate youâre throwing out terms, but seem not to appreciate the implications. Your facile explanation of long-term unfunded liability as merely an âaccounting terms, nothing moreâ would seem to indicate a failure to appreciate public-servant pensions, as well as the value they provide to Canadaâs economy.
Federal public-servant pensions are only partially-unfunded liabilities.....now, but that is only because the Federal government, under PM Chretien, defunded the PSSA, RCMPPF and the CFPF in 2001 in order to redirect the GoCâs employer-matching contributions in-year to reduce the deficit and make the budget numbers look good in an attempt to hold off calls for significant tax cuts...didnât work, but the GoC direct contributions to the PS/RCMP/CF Pension Funds we never re-funded into actual investments.
Secondly, you write off public servants (the money spent to pay them) as not adding any wealth to the economy. In your education, you must have missed the part about expenditure multiplication, and the part it plays in contributing to increasing a nationâs GDP. m (the multiplier towards GDP) = 1 / (1 - (MPC+MPI+MPG-(MPCxMPT)-MPM), so one can see that the public servantsâ salaries figure positively in three of the five terms, keeping money cycling through the economy...clearly NOT contributing âno wealth.â
How do you see that relating uniquely to public servants...especially women public servants, whom you seem to feel are employed primarily because the government takes taxes to fund âpublic sector salesâ educations, and you posit that women are the primary beneficiaries of such misuse of the Government
So History, Economics, Geography, Psychology, others...all unworthy of inclusion in a modern education?
And yet here you are, preferring this system vs the old countryâs system, no?
Welcome to the club.
How many people? %? Absolute? Limited to only 4-year degree programs? 3-year? Combined undergrad to post-grad? Are you saying that certain groups of students were lazy?Unmotivated? Incompetent? All of these?
I had a mid-90s average in high school that I attributed to applying myself and focusing on what I was doing, no matter my background. I wasnât poor, but I wasnât rich by any stretch. I am Canadian by birth and was raised in a Canadian system (Ont&BC). It would seem that Canadians by birth can be as successful as naturalized Canadians or residents. Was there a point you were trying to make beyond noting your own experience?
Overall, you seem to have a rather jaded view of any education that doesnât directly and uniquely contribute to a transactional value to the technical aspects of society.
Regards