As a college professor, I can tell you that more people going to college is not necessarily a good things. There are many students in college today who clearly do not belong there. Either they are too lazy to do the work or they lack the preparation. I have one General Education class where one of the poorest students in the class told me he was a graduating senior. He wasn’t a major from my Dept, but it shocked me nontheless. Have a BA/BS degree today is probably the equivalent of a HS diploma circa 1950.
“Have a BA/BS degree today is probably the equivalent of a HS diploma circa 1950.”
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Oh, if only I could agree! I am convinced that on average it is actually equivalent to no more than tenth grade at best. I ENTERED public school in 1950 and have no college, only a high school diploma. I would be willing to wager that if I could sit down and take a 1950 high school final exam now I probably wouldn’t pass it but would most likely outscore almost any Ba or BS holder I know who is under forty years old. Most recent college graduates would fail miserably in English, in History, in Biology, in Civics and in Literature (these were all required subjects in my day).