/lit/ - Literature

I've come to terms with the fact that most degrees, if not all of them, are not worth the enveloping debt you acquire from gaining them. We've come a long way from the need for textbooks and university buildings because you can simply find all the information you can ever need on the internet. The ethos that surrounds a degree is diminishing more and more. One of the only secured jobs after getting a degree in just about any field is a job teaching that subject you got the degree in, since teachers are usually quite high in demand, yet still underpaid. It's sad, but there is no quantifiable ratio of how well one teaches and his/her effect on the students afterwards, and that's why I think teachers don't get funded enough. It's also sad because I really want to become a school teacher just to see what the the next few generations are up to these days and how they behave so I can be on the look out for the future, in a small sense, seeing the collective knowledge of man through generations accumulate, shred, adapt. It's too interesting not to pursue such a career. Plus, the vacations are hella nice. Math would be one of those subjects to teach that I would not be worried about how the public school "curriculum" dictates how I should teach, unlike history which seems to be all about memorizing dates with sterile, inoffensive dialogues about civil rights.