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But one does need to make a living in this world. State schools are the quickest, easiest, cheapest, and least dangerous way to get a degree.

But that's the rub. Why is a BA necessary to be successful in business? The question-begging rationale I usually get is: "you can't get a job without one." Why are we obsessed with formal schooling, especially those of us who have been there?

Those of us with children of college age have to do something in the meantime. For example, my daughter did the summer program at Christendom, but she thinks it's crazy to spend 4 years and $75,000 studying Plato when you can read those books on your own. She wants to be a nurse, and she can get an RN in 2 years, for practically no money, while living at home, and attending the Latin Mass every Sunday. Sounds like a better deal all around.

Bingo! Her plan makes a lot of sense to me too.

Liberal Arts curricula are a waste of time and a waste of resources. You can see the results of the "intellectual rigor" of that form of Socratic Method every time there is a protest, and some snotnosed 20 year old says that it is a duty to mindlessly question every governmental action and societal standard.

I always thought that the goal of higher education was to train people to become productive members of society, and to give them the requisite tools to further their lives and communities.

In other words, the only purposes served by most departments in Liberal Arts is the indoctrination of students in leftist thought, and to provide jobs to professors of that intellectual bent (because they're incapable of doing any job here in the real world).

Why is a BA necessary to be successful in business?

Because people think more of a name brand than actual ability. One of the rewards of successful marketing.

One of the biggest mistakes made in this country was scrapping the concept of apprenticeship. Hands on experience trumps classroom education in many fields - many we need. You usually pick up the same info you'd learn in a classroom as you go along. Even my brothers, the engineers, will tell you that the classroom was one thing, actually doing the work was something else.

My own field is no different (although, actual practicality is questionable). There are a lot of people out there running around with university degrees in vocal performance and have atrocious technique.