Posted on 07/01/2013 5:26:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What a jumbled mix of poor solutions he’s recommending.
The answer is to get the government out of the student loan business. A shock, I know. And if good students end up having to start at community college, while working full-time, so be it. They will raise the expectations that employers ultimately have of community college grads.
Meanwhile, those ultra-liberal beehives of mass indoctrination, known as four-year colleges and universities, will take a serious haircut, at least—and be all the better for it.
Great essay.
“An interviewer will be blown out of her shoes when the lessons set out and learned are recounted in extreme detail.”
All great except for one small thing. There is a program called Taleo. It is one of many programs that now do the job of HR in finding suitable candidates for their organization. More than 75% of the time the first requirement is college degree.
You can be a brain surgeon, but without a degree you won’t get in the door.
AMEN!
For those who have not yet determined a path or paths forward, the MD school can aid in determining something interesting, a way forward. I think of MD school as precollege
Unlike many FReepers, I place high value on college. In my mind, a main benefit is learning to write. It doesn’t matter which path is chosen, the ability to write and thus communicate, is of great importance.
The solution to that would be to throw the worker the necessary educational materials and only qualify those can pass tests.
For the sake of a few hundred dollars worth of texts, we are spending tens of thousands of dollars per year, per student.
Which exactly what the education system wants.
They are not interested in education, they are interested in getting govt bucks, from the tax payers, using the students as conduits.
Not very complicated at all.
I agree, except that people used to learn how to write in high school. Colleges now have the additional burden of fixing the failures of our K-12 educational system.
You ar wrong. Learining to write, really write is always been a function of post secondary school.
Students and their parents are partly to blame for the escalation of non-educational amenities. The local flagship state university has on-campus recreational facilities that are better than most country clubs and new dorms that compete with off-campus luxury condos. The “customers” have come to expect these frills and then wonder why tuition and fees are so high.
I went to an excellent government-run high school in the 1960s. First-year composition in college was a breeze for me, as were subsequent courses that had a substantial writing component, because I had already been taught the basics of sentence structure and how to organize paragraphs and essays.
I never said that he did.
I think the college should have to co-sign student loans. As is, it is the same circumstance that created to sub prime mess. No moral hazard for the lending agent..
Never mind. I misunderstood your post.
That doesn’t always apply to engineering either, but fares much better, I will say.
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