Schooling is not equivalent to learning, a fact that is becoming all too obvious in the modern workplace.
College graduates are often dismayed that, after spending four years attending classes, they lack the practical knowledge necessary for real-world success. Employers commonly weed out job applicants by requiring a degree, making it necessary for potential workers to attend school and put themselves thousands of dollars in debt for knowledge they could have acquired elsewhere.
In many cases, the system simply isn’t working.
A recent Smart Money article from Jack Hough proposes that the traditional college degree ought to be done away with altogether:
“The student who secures a degree is increasingly unlikely to make up its cost, despite higher pay…The employer who requires a degree puts faith in a system whose standards, you’ll see, are slipping. Too many professors who are bound to degree teaching can’t truly profess; they don’t proclaim loudly the things they know, but instead whisper them to a chosen few, whom they must then accommodate with inflated grades. Worst of all, bright citizens spend their lives not knowing the things they ought to know, because they’ve been granted liberal arts degrees for something far short of a liberal arts education.”
Those are radical words. But, Hough may be on to something. [click to continue…]
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