And what is wrong?

Let's ask ourselves: why do people go to universities? Remember a simple phrase: if you don’t study well, you’ll go to work as a janitor. You might even think that everyone who goes to study does not want to work as janitors. What then do they want? The exact opposite of being a janitor. People go to university to have a well-paid, highly qualified job! To be able to buy a house, a car. To have everything, although not always (one of the definitions of the middle class). People think that going to university gives you all this, but in reality it doesn't. The university is silent about this, and we continue to believe that “if we study, we’ll get a great job.” Five years in college will not bring you an inch closer to your “good job.” And that's why.

1. University teachers cannot teach you to be a professional, because they themselves know little.

Answer your question honestly: why do those who teach you work as state employees in universities on their small salaries? Because they cannot apply for qualified positions in the labor market. They lack neither experience nor qualifications. Those who have enough leave. Do you think a successful financier will go to work as a top manager at a bank for a salary of $30,000, or as an assistant professor at a university for a salary of $300? Most often, universities are taught by unsuccessful professionals who could not find a job outside the university. They stay to live with him: they receive a hostel and a minimum salary. This is what they live on. Let me say right away that there are good and very good teachers in universities. But they are not even a minority, but only a few. A good teacher should not only teach his subject in an accessible and understandable way, but also emphasize the practical applicability of this knowledge. Teaching useless things is not good.

2. University teachers extol science and despise professional implementation.

The roots of this should be sought in the fact that all teachers have failed as professionals. And the only way to find an excuse is to convince yourself that professional fulfillment is an unworthy occupation . If you miss classes because you go to scientific conferences, good for you. And if you miss classes because you work - “the university is not for you”, “transfer to correspondence”, etc. I've heard enough of these phrases. Teachers are like reclusive monks. A profession is all vanity of vanities. So we devoted ourselves to serving God and science, and all day long we read prayers and write scientific articles. The goal may be noble, but it is absolutely useless in real life.

3. Wrong standard for comparison.

Very often, students compare themselves with schoolchildren and are proud that they know much more. This illusion continues until the person thinks about work and turns his gaze in another direction. After all, if students compared themselves with people already working in their future profession, then they would see that they were approaching their goal with millimeter steps. You don’t have to look up to everyone at university. Because if you do it “like everyone else,” then the result will be “like everyone else.” In the group, most of the students are random people who do not have great prospects. Maybe their parents pushed them into college, they were forced out of the army, anything can happen. Their destiny, for the most part, is either work outside their specialty, or a full-time low-paid position in some government office. There is no need to compare yourself with your fellow students. The best criterion of knowledge and success will be your completed projects, your success at work. Relate yourself not to the “gray mass”, but to the market.

4. Vocational training is only a small part of what is taught at the university.

When you come to work, you will be asked what you already know how to do, not what you were taught. Your boss will be interested in what you know and can do that is necessary for the position. Almost like in a university: they give you a very specific task, but do not explain how to do it and expect results within a certain time frame. Good luck to you! If they read history to you at a university, and you work as an operator in a bank, does this bring you closer to your goal or further away from it? Formally, you know more. So it's getting closer? But in fact, with each semester, you have less and less time to gain valuable professional knowledge, and their volume remains the same. Those. really - it makes it farther away.

5. The university does not have the goal of “making you a highly qualified professional.”

It is very difficult to hit the target when you are not aiming at it. You are transformed into a comprehensively developed specialist. This is “second general secondary education”. They just forgot to mention that the person who learns everything really knows nothing. Remember the three goals of a university: science, general education and professional education? What do you think had to be cut in order to add science and general education? That's right: professional disciplines. And do you still think that the goal of a university is to make you a professional?

6. If a person studies more than two subjects at the same time, he is wasting his time.

After school, this statement seems erroneous. But at work you understand how fair it is. At school, lessons are so short, not because it is effective, but because the student is still a child, and he is simply not able to concentrate for more than an hour. But frequent task switching interferes with the brain's ability to think effectively. But at work, they will demand from you like an adult, and here frequent switching between tasks will begin to greatly reduce your effectiveness. Why do you think you study for exams so quickly? You simply don't switch to other tasks. Hence the sharply increased efficiency. Imagine that you are on a diet for only 6 hours a week, and how soon will you have to wait for the result?

7. At a university, a person only gets to know the subjects superficially.

Let's say you study something for two semesters. You have two lectures and two practices per week. A serious approach by university standards. How many hours will it be? 4 pairs of 2 academic hours (1.5 regular) is 6 hours a week. In the first semester we study for 4 months: September, October, November, December. In the second there are 4 more: February, March, April, May. Total: 8 months, 4.5 weeks each and 6 hours per week. 216 hours per year. Let it be known to you, my dear students, that there are 180 working hours in a month, and any of your annual courses can be completed in just 1.5 months, and if desired (or necessary) in just a month.

8. You are taught the most general, useless and outdated knowledge.

Each knowledge has a different value depending on the problem you have to solve. If you are drowning, then knowing how to swim is much more useful than a course in philosophy, isn't it? And if you get a job as a cashier, then the ability to count is more important than knowing seven foreign languages ​​at a basic level. The most useful skills for your professional fulfillment are, of course, practical experience and knowledge of the latest developments in your profession. A university teacher most often has never had real experience in your future profession and is not familiar with the latest achievements. And even if I read about them somewhere, I have no idea about their value or how and when to use them. Even if you learn 100 unnecessary subjects, they will not replace the 10 necessary ones.

9. Practical skills are 10 times more valuable than theoretical knowledge.

In life and at work, we often have to DO something. Just because you know how to do it, or think you know it, doesn't mean you can do it. Do you know that smoking is harmful, and were you able to quit smoking? Do you know that playing sports is right and you can do it every day? Do you know that English is useful for your career and, of course, you were able to learn it? Only practice matters in life. The more knowledge you have at the expense of skills, the less useful they are. How will you understand that some knowledge is incorrect, some you don’t know how to apply, and some don’t work at all in the real world? Have you ever thought about this? Welcome to the real world. You can learn the rules of the road “good” and “excellent”, but you still won’t be able to drive. Theory is a good help for practice. Imagine you are building a wall: the bricks are the practice and the mortar is the theory. Without mortar (theory), the wall will be unstable, but without bricks (practice), your theory is of no use at all. So, gentlemen, divide your 5 years at university by 10! Six months is the true result of your many years of “effort.” Want proof? When you get a job and work for six months, you will realize that your university knowledge has doubled .

10. Science.

You might think that the purpose of a university is to produce scientists for science. But we have just enough scientists. There is no problem with this, the problem is with the financing of science. Scientists need research institutes and laboratories so that they can actually do something useful, and not just write articles. Would Gagarin have flown into space if there had been no money for Baikonur? Of course not. That's it. Where can you get money to finance scientific research? From the budget. How do they get into the budget? From taxes paid by companies and their employees. For science to be successful, for every scientist, a university must produce 10 professionals who can compete in the international market. And the university produces more and more scientists. The university simply can’t do anything else. And scientists without funding are also of no use. So it turns out that all studying at universities is a waste of time and money. We need a university that would graduate professionals. People who completed it would be happy with their lives. Employers would be pleased with the level of training of specialists. Everyone would be happy. The university is ineffective, get over it

I asked one personnel officer why everyone always requires higher education. He replied: “So that there is a guarantee that a person is able to do garbage that is uninteresting to him for free for five years.”

Why college is useless in helping you become a top professional:

1. He has no goal of making you a professional
2. Only a third of all subjects go towards your professional training
3. Most of these subjects are taught only theoretically and/or are outdated
4. Teachers often have never worked in their specialty
5. You pay attention to 10 things at once and can't really understand any of them
6. The university does not encourage if a person was able to get a job in his specialty
7. Teachers do not want to believe that professionals are more important than scientists