Thursday, May 15, 2008 :::
Why don't we declare the bachelor's degree obsolete? No, not education, not colleges and universities, not professors or libraries or students, just the four-year bachelor's degree. He notes that much of college can be learned on one's own, now that the printing press has been invented and books are affordable, and to the extent that college is pre-professional, and those professions can't be learned from books, different professions need different amounts of training.
UPDATE: Okay, it's been pointed out to me that that was what I considered his main point, but I didn't exactly summarize the whole article. I thought the bit about college being increasingly expensive was just a lead-in - an explanation of why it's suddenly more urgent that the inefficiencies in the system be wrung out.
::: posted by Steven at 12:34 AM
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