Posted on 09/26/2008 4:27:48 PM PDT by thinkingIsPresuppositional
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Yes, it is. Hardly anything is worth the paper it’s written on anymore.
The most socially irresponsible class in America is the group known as “College Presidents.”
When I was a young Freshman at a fine private college in 1966, my tuition was $990 a year. I could make that in one summer of hard work as a (non-union) construction laborer.
Today the same school charges $29,000 and has already seved notice they will break $30,000 next year. Sick, sick, sick.
It’s only for rich kids now. Or welfare students.
Notice that at one time, “room and board” at a private college was actually slightly MORE than tuition.
Makes me wonder if the author has a college degree. I think probably not.
And oh so true.
Trade schools are a great idea.
I think the president at Ohio State (Elwood Gorden Gee) makes nearly $2M per year. It’s not uncommon for other administrators there to make as much as $500M or more. Disgusting!
Liberal arts degrees are not worth today’s college cost. Plain and simple.
Mega dittos Tigs. We’re trying to come up with $15,000 extra $$$ to send Al to private Christian college where all her friends are going. It’s probably the most conservative school in the nation, by far, but we’re strongly against debt and the closer the time comes, the more I’m having second thoughts.
Hillsdale?
“I think the president at Ohio State (Elwood Gorden Gee) makes nearly $2M per year. It’s not uncommon for other administrators there to make as much as $500M or more. Disgusting!”
I meant $500K, not $500M. :)
I don't have one either.
First year or two of college is teaching kids what kids in other countries already know BEFORE they enter college.
One of my granddaughters graduated Cum Laud from an expensive private Lutheran University during Memorial Day weekend.
No Anthem was sung, no pledge of allegiance. Not a word was mentioned in memory of those who gave life or limb to keep the country free. And no prayer was said for the graduating class.
But! The keynote speaker was an alumni who is in the State Department in Washington, D.C.. Her speech covered the glories of working for the government, and she cordially solicited the class to apply to the State Department.
My granddaughter didn’t learn anything of value there. She says her mother and dad are givers, and she is a taker; and she calls those of us who see through Barack Obama racists!
I would say whatever education she may have had prior to her freshman year was more than undone at this “Chriatian” University.
I certainly hope she is the exception rather than the rule!
I don’t know if Prelutsky has a degree, but I have a B.A. in English and one in French, an M.A. in linguistics, and a teaching credential, and I agree with him. I paid a lot of money for the privilege of being exposed to what was 20% literature and %80 marxist twaddle.
Not exactly a great fit to this ping list but an interesting read.
Education is another one of those darn near worthless degrees.
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