Posted on 06/10/2012 8:50:41 AM PDT by Signalman
Edited on 06/10/2012 9:06:52 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Many parents and the children they send to college are paying rapidly rising prices for something of declining quality. This is because "quality" is not synonymous with "value."
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, University of Tennessee law professor, believes college has become, for many, merely a "status marker" signaling membership in the educated caste, and a place to meet spouses of similar status
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Been making this point on all these college bubble threads. Anyone who understands mathematics knows that as you increase the participation rate, the average intelligence of college students decreases. This forces the schools to lower the difficulty level. All of you saying that all these kids should be going into science and engineering aren’t quite getting it. The people getting degrees in bitter lesbianism could not pass calculus.
So how does one make money on this? Who is holding the paper on these debts? Who to short?
and if they don't, how many of them simply turn out degreed navel gazers???
and i like to think i had to really read, think, especially analyze and write while learning engineering...
but you obviously learned much more than the rest of them did by graduating Cum Laude and i say to you Sir Kudos for that!!!
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