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It's interesting that the value of a degree is measured in increases in income later on in your life. The traditional role of universities was as a place of lea
by socksy 16y ago
It's interesting that the value of a degree is measured in increases in income later on in your life. The traditional role of universities was as a place of learning and for the advancement of knowledge through academia, not as a social engineering tool.
- hga 16y agoWell, as long as universities still do that (and they do, by and large), what's wrong with them extending their mission to prepare people for our current more complicated world where a lot of people need to learn more stuff than any normal high school will teach? My Silent Generation father got a business degree at the University of Missouri in the mid-50s and that made a big difference in the '60s (and beyond) after he did his service in the Navy. E.g. he was able to take a company public and make it more successful, where in an extreme and unusual counter example, some quasi-competitors status wise he'd gone to high school with didn't have the skills needed to keep their company afloat and tried pulling tricks that ended with them getting some vacation time in Club Fed.