Tapsearch Com EditorStupid, lazy college kids these days...
September 26th 2007 21:59
Lisa Fabrizio weighs in on the college debate with this. She's right that kids misbehave in college more than they should, and even that some folks encourage going to college for no particular reason. It's quite arguable that too many people are pursuing degrees these days.
But this is wrong:
No, "short generations ago," sending kids to college depended on whether you could afford it, and whether you had the right pedigree to get a child in. Only recently have college admissions become extremely tied to academic ability, affirmative action notwithstanding -- more people in general get in, but they're drawn more specifically from the high-IQ population. "Short generations ago," most very smart people didn't go to college. The Bell Curve. Read it.
Then there's this:
So it's a birthright...but only for two-thirds of the population? I could see saying it's a birthright for the rich, or for the very-high-IQ holders, but many people face quite a bit of uncertainty.
But this is wrong:
Short generations ago, sending kids to college was an easy choice. Your child either did or did not demonstrate the willingness and capability required to learn at the university level. This meant that he was prepared to hunker down to study in a serious manner in order to secure the education needed for a pre-chosen profession. If this was not the case, he got off his duff and found some other kind of work for which a degree was not needed.
No, "short generations ago," sending kids to college depended on whether you could afford it, and whether you had the right pedigree to get a child in. Only recently have college admissions become extremely tied to academic ability, affirmative action notwithstanding -- more people in general get in, but they're drawn more specifically from the high-IQ population. "Short generations ago," most very smart people didn't go to college. The Bell Curve. Read it.
Then there's this:
In modern America, a college degree is now almost a given, a birthright for the nearly two-thirds of all high school graduates who go on to higher education.
So it's a birthright...but only for two-thirds of the population? I could see saying it's a birthright for the rich, or for the very-high-IQ holders, but many people face quite a bit of uncertainty.
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I do not agree with its premise. I worked in several factories while going to college and found a vast void between the college class room and the factory floors related to the real world of the streets.
I also have a large family with all of them attaining college degrees with some having a Masters too.
In this underclass and working poor class economy, only a few can afford college. The college loan situation is a bad one too.
College is what you make it from the top down and vice versa. In the Global Economic arena, we are finding a college degree does not help like it did in the past with few finding jobs in their fields. It seems even the best educators are only capable of producing more good educators and not real world occupations.
There is a vast population now of the "unnetted" outside looking in at the Globalist Free Trader celebration. Workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and we now have highly skilled workers with advanced degrees in India who will work for about 30 percent of what is considered a living wage in the USA.
There is a desparate need now to match up education with the needs of our society. Workers are the core of any society and the academic world has to realize that and target their teaching accordingly.
We no longer let just elite groupings in politics, big business, the media and in the academic world control events. Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland, who rose from the working class to being the President of Poland says,
I am only a consumer and know very little about business and economics but I do know something is very wrong when 10 percent of the population controls 100 percent of the control of wealth. Walesa was a major reason for the downfall of the Communist Soviet Union empire but if his words are not heeded in the workday and in the classroom, we are faced with something much more serious than worrying about who goes to college.
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