The purpose of modern education is to signal a) that you were smart enough to get into a certain university, and b) you were able to endure four years of hoop jumping, demonstrating to a prospective employer that you may be smart enough to learn their job-specific skills. In a few years no employer will care that you spent four
years thinking about Russian cinema or political philosophy in the Continental Tradition, and the idea that these courses are enriching you as a human being is more often than not a pretty lie. The ugly truth is that since the government has banned IQ-testing of job-applicants because of the racial inequalities that inevitably arise, diplomas are being used as weakened proxy IQ-tests, and a college degree serves primarily as a signal of your genetic endowments. There was a time not long ago when the truism that half of all people are below average was accepted as a fact of life. Only about half of people got high school diplomas (these diplomas were actually worth something) and 1 in 20 obtained a Bachelors degree. Fast forward to today and high school diplomas have become nearly worthless with 80-90% attainment rates, with head-in-the-sand proposals like No Child Left Behind refusing to recognize that not all people are born with the same genetic gifts and you can't significantly improve intelligence by will. We are indoctrinated early on that anybody can go to college and that we should want to go to college. An illustration of this madness is Trina Thomspon's lawsuit against her alma mater Monroe College for the refundal of the $70,000 tuition because no one wants to hire someone with a worthless degree. She is accusing Monroe College of false advertising, and she may have a point. Bachelor degrees are the new high school degrees. Grade and degree inflation are not a secret and employers are not playing along with the charade.
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years thinking about Russian cinema or political philosophy in the Continental Tradition, and the idea that these courses are enriching you as a human being is more often than not a pretty lie. The ugly truth is that since the government has banned IQ-testing of job-applicants because of the racial inequalities that inevitably arise, diplomas are being used as weakened proxy IQ-tests, and a college degree serves primarily as a signal of your genetic endowments. There was a time not long ago when the truism that half of all people are below average was accepted as a fact of life. Only about half of people got high school diplomas (these diplomas were actually worth something) and 1 in 20 obtained a Bachelors degree. Fast forward to today and high school diplomas have become nearly worthless with 80-90% attainment rates, with head-in-the-sand proposals like No Child Left Behind refusing to recognize that not all people are born with the same genetic gifts and you can't significantly improve intelligence by will. We are indoctrinated early on that anybody can go to college and that we should want to go to college. An illustration of this madness is Trina Thomspon's lawsuit against her alma mater Monroe College for the refundal of the $70,000 tuition because no one wants to hire someone with a worthless degree. She is accusing Monroe College of false advertising, and she may have a point. Bachelor degrees are the new high school degrees. Grade and degree inflation are not a secret and employers are not playing along with the charade.For further details visit as :http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/storage/paper519/news/2009/08/24/Opinions/Whats.The.Point.Of.A.College.Education-3755931.shtml
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