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It's not there because all those professional guilds legally require a college degree. It used to be you could just pass the bar and become a lawyer. The bar
by bokonist 18y ago
It's not there because all those professional guilds legally require a college degree. It used to be you could just pass the bar and become a lawyer. The bar associations then got laws passed requiring an actual law degrees, so people took inexpensive correspondence courses. The lawyers then fought back by requiring the schools be accredited, and setting minimum rules for face time. Thus you are forced to pay very expensive law school tuition to practice as a lawyer. This pushes up the wages of the current lawyers, who got the law passed. The whole thing is a scam.
- krschultz 18y agoIs it a scam? Do you really want people to be able to get engineering degrees without going through the rigour of a full college education? These are the people who design airplanes and cars and powerplants. Sure maybe it works for Java programming of some BS business app, but most of the exams out there are on fields where screwing up something has major consequences.
- bokonist 18y agoThat's what the test is for. In a law it's a scam because requiring professors that teach in person has absolutely nothing to do with learning law. You learn law from studying books and then practicing (apprenticeship). Not from professors. The same is true with almost all professions.
- BrandonM 18y agoYou actually think someone who went through "the rigour of a full college education" is any less likely to screw up than someone who passed a certification exam? I know plenty of people who coasted through a CS&E degree (Computer Science and Engineering) at my school, and I'm not sure I'd want them writing the software for "airplanes and cars and powerplants". The point is that a degree doesn't prove much, and a certification can prove approximately as much at a significantly lower cost.