A Bachelor’s Degree for $10K? Yes, We Can

Pajamas Media ^ | February 23, 2011 | Publius Audax

[squarebarb]

This thread is going on forever! Hey being fluent in Spammish is not easy but it’s an on-line degree!

[meyer]

It can be done, and should. Schools today are all about the instructors rather than the students. They’re all about sitting in a classroom getting indoctrinated in the latest liberal fad (like ‘diversity’ and ‘global warming’) rather than obtaining useful knowledge and practicing the ability to think for ones’ self.

Much, though not all, of today’s college courses could be taught online for a fraction of the cost of “brick and mortar” style instruction.

It’s time to break up the accrediting agency monopoly as well. Imagine getting rid of the mandatory “fluff” that occupies much of the student’s courseload and replacing it with hard knowledge. Teaching students to actually think for themselves instead of teaching them how to be street demonstrators, or injecting their minds with leftist drivel as if it were fact. An accrediting system that focuses on the core subject material instead of the latest liberal fad would be an instant success for businesses wanting to hire bright, self-starting, productive employees.

[decimon]

I have a notion that every institution goes bad over time. In the case of our government it’s a matter of having gone off track. In the case of education it’s a matter of having stagnated in an outmoded system. Government should have changed far less and education should have changed far more.