What The Hell Is Wrong With Higher Education

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Radio Free Ortona. We're 3 people with some stuff in common and some stuff that gives us different perspectives, which is why there's 3 of us instead of 1 of us. We know that the sense making infrastructure is broken, and 3 middle aged bald assholes aren't going to fix it. But maybe we can, in our own small way, contribute to helping everyone try to make sense of the world. The binary nature of most mainstream narratives is woefully inadequate for understanding any issue. Our hope is to explore the issues of the day and discover their complex depths. Hopefully we can relay some of this complexity to you. We're not going to lie to you, if you came here looking for answers, you're in the wrong place. We don't have any. But if we hash this stuff out long enough, we might at least come up with some better questions. This week we try, and mostly fail, to figure out what's wrong with higher education. Are students being served by what they're being taught at today's institutions of higher learning? Is society? What happens when you create a class of highly-educated under-employed people with five and six figure debt loads and few prospects for being able to earn enough to pay that off. Also we ramble our way down more than a few rabbit holes. A couple articles that prompted today's conversation https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/the-most-dangerous-class/ https://www.businessinsider.com/debt-delaying-marriage-causing-divorces-student-loans-mortgages-medical-auto-2022-3 Please email thoughts and comments to [email protected] Thanks, and we hope you enjoy the episode. Also I promise we'll try to better next time. Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): http://uppbeat.io/t/yeti-music/casa-vega License code: RZY4IEWYAJ0P19B2 Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): http://uppbeat.io/t/mojo/rebel License code: 0HLFO6L8RFLSVSTA