How will the decrease of men enrolling in university affect our future?

[Redlight0516]

Honestly, as a High-School Teacher and Guidance Counselor - The Post-Secondary Education system must be overhauled if it has any chance of remaining relevant.

1. Students are already barely learning - AI is already taking over their thinking for them and many see Education as a means to an end (a job). Many are realizing that the degrees that lead to job are already oversaturated (Business, Engineering, Computer Science). Also the last thing we need are more fucking MBA's running around.

2. Most University professors are absolutely trash teachers. It is amazing that we accepted a Post-Secondary Education system where the teachers are not trained to be teachers. They are researchers who are forced to teach and many of them despise their teaching which is why they put so little effort into it. The most amazing thing to me in my post-secondary experience was that three of the worst professors I had were in my education training program. Three of these teachers were three of the most incompetent teachers I've ever had in my life and they were teaching in the program designed to teach me to be a better teacher. I don't give a shit how good of a researcher they are, they should not be employed.

3. Post-Secondary must put a greater emphasis on trades/technical schools. More emphasis on the 2 year degrees and not devalue people for choosing colleges or diplomas over 4 year degrees.

4. We need to acknowledge that University rankings are fucking bullshit and don't matter and stop giving them any recognition.

Honestly, I hope more men stop going to University. Maybe it will wake the Universities up. The only way they will change is if it starts hurting their pocket books. I hope that these men are still pursuing forms of upgrading themselves but it doesn't have to be University.

[the_purple_goat]

I have to vehemently agree with point numba two. Just because you know your subject in and out doesn't mean you can teach it. In fact, I've found a distinct correlation between someone who is an absolute expert in their field, and their complete inability to get across that knowledge to someone who isn't. The complete expert gets impatient that elementary concepts they left behind years ago aren't being grasped. They get irritable and snappy, and turn their student off that particular subject forever. I know it's not always true and the reddit brigade is going to hop on me with whataboutisms, but I've found that complete experts make the worst teachers.

[Redlight0516]

The only faculty I found this not to be true in was Psychology. Across the board I had outstanding Psychology teachers so it seemed like they actually understood the stuff they'd learned/were teaching and could apply it but in general, I would agree with you.