Oh my god I don't even know where to begin. You are the actual worst.

Okay so think this though. Come on. Almost everyone will need vocational training, which you have now divorced from university, because almost everyone will need jobs.

I think you were too busy calling me old to notice that I was responding to someone advocating 9-hour schooldays and evening cram schools. Not so much with the unstructured recreational time.

"Have fun" and "Get the fuck over yourself" are incompatible sentiments. Pick one.

That is gorgeous. How did you do your hair?

So, again. Anyone who wants vocational training won't be "dependent" on college. Meaning, they don't get to go? Meaning, the only people who do get to go are the people so rich they require no job training?

And then what. Would people do this in addition to your four years in the ivory tower? Or are you trying to scrub university rosters of anyone who will ever need to work for a living?

Detrimental to academic learning, maybe, but unstructured, minimally-supervised time has recently been a concern for how much it influences social skills and creative thinking. Are you so old that you don't take in new information anymore?

How do you have a kid, and talk so endlessly about college, without knowing that any student under the age of 24 has their parents' finances factored into their financial aid eligibility? Pedantry about the world "child" isn't going to save you from the grim specter of Expected Family Contribution.

People go to university with the main purpose and intent of receiving vocational training vice becoming more well rounded people of the world, which is the purpose of higher education.

It's trying to squirrel out of rote memorization. Memory drills are most people's least favorite parts of early math education and they can certainly be abused, but when you get down to it there's a certain point you can't progress past without memorizing some arithmetic.

This self-mythologizing you and your hagiographied ancestors compulsively indulge in is holding us back more than math ever could.

Thank God It's Never Racism.

Uh. It's tested. Like, go ahead and be mad about everything else, but don't make shit up.

He's old enough to be president. Usher 2016

He's not a hip hop artist just because he's black you racist ass.

Or that parent is dealing with things that are invisible to your selfish and self-righteous ass, like a special-needs child or a crisis that makes completing their errand more important than preserving your dainty eardrums.

"It's okay, my kid can't be in public right now because I teach him neither manners nor tact, but I'm trying to fix that!"

Hey genius, there's no way to "train them for the experience" without... exposing them to the experience.

Yeah a bus crash couldn't possibly create the need for any important phone calls. You called it.