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DRAMA MAMA

is university worth it now?

DRAMA MAMA

BENOFTHEWEEK

Fiction, News, Drama, Entertainment News, Comedy

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Ben is scared that we have mashed potatoes for brains. Watch the video version of the episode here: https://youtu.be/wkq7ZM7YX-Y Follow my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benoftheweek Business Inquiries: [email protected] Originally produced by Studio71. But now it's produced by meee :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.2

We are living through a paradigm shift right now that I feel like no one is talking about

0:37.4

and it's making me feel insane

0:39.3

Um

0:41.3

Basically

0:42.3

Since the start of university since like Oxford was found in what like the 1300 I don't even know

0:49.3

I don't even I did a tour and they said some insane number, which might have even been three digits.

1:11.1

Since the start of formal secondary education, the point of colleges and universities has been to learn, to be educated on topics that are very complex in some cases, very niche.

1:17.7

The purpose and use now of colleges and universities is 99% to get the piece of paper

1:22.8

that in theory gets you a job after four grueling years

1:27.1

of stress and student debt and maybe

1:30.5

1% learning like a tidbit or a fact here and there. This is a paradigm shift that I feel like

1:38.2

is literally going to have like lasting consequences on our on society. And I know I'm being so dramatic when I say that but like it really

1:50.5

We've already been in like a really dire

1:53.8

wave of like anti-intellectualism and I know I'm the pot calling the kettle fucking black because I dropped out after a year and a half of university. So, hey, maybe I'm the worst person to be talking about this, but it has been on

2:06.4

my mind and it's been kind of blowing my mind recently. So when I say that the college and university

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