I was pondering this while out doing errands on Monday. Cheap money (student loans) has vastly distorted the market in education, without improving education, but giving us some pretty spiffy buildings and administrators with fancy titles, nice paychecks, who are mostly just meddlesome tools.
It occurs to me we need to fix the market on the student side.
A credit hour is a credit hour is a credit hour, when it comes to cost.
They ought to be priced at value. Why should an hour of physics cost what an hour of Medieval French Literature costs? It's like students hit the academic car lot, and can buy a Mercedes or a used 30 year old AMC Pacer.
And they both cost 130K.
And many students choose the Pacer.
That's pretty much fraud, since the staff and faculty put Mercedes stars on the hood of the Pacer.
Hey, if you're going to get a Bachelor's in General Studies in Medieval French Literature, let's face it, the faculty probably ought to pay you to haul that Pacer away.
I was goaded by this article wherein
Mike Rowe talks about the Worst Advice In The History Of The World.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2014/01/on_college.html
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Jan 23 2014, 05:18 AM
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