Posted on 04/21/2020 6:43:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Generally, when a buyer is defrauded of services, the demand for the goods diminishes. As more emerges of what colleges and universities across this country are not doing, the demand will dry up unless there are drastic changes.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has published a report titled "What Will They Learn?" It is a survey of core requirements at our nation's colleges and universities and one does not need a Ph.D. to comprehend the paucity of education now apparent in far too many places. In fact, "for over a decade, ACTA has expressed concern that rising employer dissatisfaction with college graduates, as well as the decline in civic competency and informed discourse in the public square, are attributable to an overall deterioration of core curricula in the liberal arts. That is why ACTA evaluates over 1,100 general education programs every year in light of standards and criteria established by the committees of scholars... convened."
Repeatedly,
many colleges and universities are watering down their requirements, allowing students to bypass college-level writing, mathematics, and economics courses and to graduate with a mediocre knowledge base and skillset. The 'joke' or 'easy-A' courses, such as 'Science in Film,' 'American History through Baseball,' or 'History of Rock n’ Roll in America,' may be fun and easy, and there is certainly a place for the odd niche course as a free elective or advanced topics course in a major. But as students often discover after they leave campus, they graduated without developing the intellectual abilities that would position them to excel in a competitive job market -- because their institution did not require them to take challenging courses that discipline and furnish the mind. .
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I graduated HS in 1971 and History wasn’t required after my sophomore year.
Much of higher ed is worthless except most big business and govt jobs require a degree. So what is inherently worthless has value. We have to break the link between good jobs and phony degrees.
Students are just grist for diploma mills.
For later
Progressive education ala John Dewey has been around for a while.
Dorkbama got a few degrees.
And all appear to be worth as much as a cereal box top degree given his demonstrated stupidity.
And to clinch the argument, just think about journalism degrees.
His response: So was Honda. (I drive a Honda).
Nope, Honda didn't come along until after the war. I'm specifically talking about the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
Whatever...
John Dewey is one of the “Seven men who rule the world from the grave”.
Bad ideas, like bad behavior, always have a lasting legacy.
The reality is, many stupid elders of each generation look down on the young ones. Further, since the old fogeys are usually the ones writing the articles, they blast and bash the youths...fully ignorant of how THEIR generation was allegedly bunch of dopes 30-50 years prior.
Each generation, to be sure, doesn't place the same emphasis on what is important as the prior generation. It could be argued that since Sputnik, the hard sciences have been championed more than liberal arts. And, to be fair, STEM jobs tend to pay better than an English major. I don't recall my Dad's generation talking about integral calculus at the barbecue.
But it is worth reminding the old timers that it is the PARENT'S primary job to raise their children, not the state. Even if they outsource that part of their God-mandated job to a private school, it doesn't negate their responsibility.
The punchline, therefore, is that the academic 'failing' of the youths is really the fault of the article writers. Look in the mirror, people: if today's kids are really stupid, rather than blathering on through some article, maybe these people should put away their keyboard and talk to their children. They'd be amazed at what they'd learn.
Where did you go to High School?
I graduated in 1988, and we Western Civ (full year) sophomore year, U.S. (full year) junior year, and while no history per se was required senior year, government and economics very much built upon the previous two years.
The two year long courses went deeper into what had already been taught in year-long courses in 7th and 8th grade, respectively.
I once interviewed a history teacher, and jokingly asked the years of the American Civil War. He guessed 1897. He failed the exam. Secondly, a young woman at work was able to do most of her homework on her breaks and lunch. She worked full time, and often had a part time job. She had to do quizzes on line. Questions were similar to what you would expect in a Reader’s Digest quiz. She has her 4 year degree.
“Nope, Honda didn’t come along until after the war. I’m specifically talking about the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.”
False logic. You don’t know where their grandparents worked. Likely they worked for the Japanese War effort.
Wish they’d teach them how to balance a checkbook and save for a rainy day.
Oh. You again. Yeah, that’s possible, but they didn’t work under the Honda name.
Eastern Washington state.
You have got to be kidding. A history teacher that doesn’t know history.
“But the Boomers were all a bunch of drugged-out hippies, “
Maybe you should put away you keyboard and talk to boomers. You may be amazed at what you learn.
“Oh. You again. Yeah, that’s possible, but they didn’t work under the Honda name.”
Maybe they worked for Mr. Honda making propellers for those planes.
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