>Education is not a checkbox on the road to getting a job Hit the nail on the head. There is education for its own sake, for personal intellectual growth - re

>Education is not a checkbox on the road to getting a job Hit the nail on the head. There is education for its own sake, for personal intellectual growth - reading, writing, and discussing philosophy, literature, (pure) math, social sciences, etc. which is really best served by a 4-year residential experience with others who actually care about it. And there is education for >what skills and experience would I need to be valuable in the workplace. which may be best served in MOOCs, community college, specialty career training schools, or simply on the job. Their unholy alliance in the university system is making both worse. Education for its own sake is dragged down by people who don't want to be there and don't really have the mental horsepower but are simply collecting a credential on their way to a job. It's made unaffordable to those who actually want it by all this demand from people who just want credentials. Career training is dragged down by adherence to the structures and costs associated with liberal education (dorms, classrooms, libraries, etc), slowed down by all that "distracting" liberal education imposed along the way. It's time the two were severed entirely.