[hinckley buzzard]

It appears that a college degree earned in the 21st century is less a marker of education than a certificate of indoctrination. What some ornery cranks have long suspected is becoming noticeably true— the more education you get the dumber you turn out to be.

[asinclair]

STEM degrees still mean something, in that colleges/universities are not handing out STEM degrees like participation trophies. In order to get the passing grades, you have to pass the exams, especially the final exams. For the soft- and non-sciences, not so much, although I'm seeing some music degree programs require the students to actually know how to play their instruments. In particular, pipe-organ students.

I still remember my first job. One engineer that was part of the training staff commented that the less education the new hire had, the few bad things needed to be un-learned. I wonder if that's still true today.