Posted on 03/11/2006 12:56:51 PM PST by Dark Skies
You mean the place that hired a "professor" that would rather spend his time making rap albums than what he is being paid
to do, like "teach". What was Princeton thinking?
The problem are the "trustees" that let schools get away with crap like that.
Oddly, students from all over the world have no problems with our universities. Nearly every country on the planet sends their best and brightest to America for an education...
I wish you well, but I don't think I'd want to be in that field today. I understand that "liberals" (i.e., Leftists) outnumber conservatives by something like 20 or 30 to 1 in history departments. Maybe not at your school, but nationally.
Unless I've been misled, I think you will have a hard time getting hired and tenured if you let your conservative views be known. Then again, maybe things are finally starting to change. For your sake, I hope so.
I picked this field because it is what I've wanted to do since I was 13. I can't stand revisionist historians and I decided that I was going to be a different kind of history professor.
Though I should be able to break into banking eventually, it may take several more years for me because of this.
I think that a four-year degree will continue to be vital to success -- especially if it is from a top Chinese university or from one of the Indian Institutes of Technology.
You may be correct. I posted this article because I thought it would get people thinking. The status quo needs to be challenged so that the bad parts are chipped away and the good ones are refined.
On the other hand, I hear that some of our troops in the ME (on land and sea) are continuing their education via the internet. Vy exciting time for education...
I think those institutions that think they are beyond competition should think again. Competition is a good thing...keeps us sharp.
Life is a kind of revolution.
Equivalency exams?
Who will sanction these exams, how will recognize which exams are legitimate, and which ones aren't? It'll come down to which exams are considered more prestigious, and those will be used to separate the cream from the crop. You'll have "prepatory schools" for the better exams, and someone will charge a lot of money for those--it'll be no different than the Ivy League is today.
Higher education should not be solely about choosing the correct answers on an exam. There are too many intangibles that an institution of higher learning should provide that a multiple choice exam could never duplicate.
Of these, the admission process is as effective as ever. The placement process is deteriorating, since the positions on offer are typically in a deteriorating American business and government organizations. The educational process is in the worst shape, because students are not getting the training needed to take advantage of the opportunities that actually exist.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with a lot of what this article is saying. I just think that theoretically, a classic university education should provide its students with much more than a standardized exam could ever measure. This may, or may not be true in practive.
Yes, when Donald Trump hit the Big Apple he nothing but a few million dollars, his father's contacts, and some inside deals...
True. he started out wya ahead -- but, he has grown his fortune. Another type of person could have easily blown it. He didn't. And, I have no doubt he has learned a lot along the way.
True. he started out way ahead -- but, he has grown his fortune. Another type of person could have easily blown it. He didn't. And, I have no doubt he has learned a lot along the way.
You make a good point. The exams themselves and their issuers take a premier role.
As pertains to law and accounting (can't speak to medicine), this has been going on for a long time.
In my very young days, I became a CPA without taking anything but the basic college accounting courses.
My state (which is quite rigorous) provided an exception to being an accounting grad. All the course requirements could be exempted by passing equivalency exams...and they were tough. I bought all the texts and stood the exams...and passed them all in less time than I could have taken the courses. And then went on to pass the CPA exam (in two sittings). And as any CPA will tell you...that isn't an easy test.
Bottom line...academia doesn't and shouldn't have a lock on education.
Academia should compete with the real world. Let's examine the evidence and make our decisions accordingly. Make academia compete...it will resist for all the wrong reasons.
I think one might learn more from a successful real estate developer than a professor who has never risked a dime.
Professional real estate developers do teach for him, according to him.
Sounds great to me!
Well, if you take an online course there, let me know what you think of it! I am curious about it.
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