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>Today “everyone” goes to college but it’s also trivial to graduate college with no useful skills or mind expansion because it has become more accessible and th
by TMWNN 3y ago
>Today “everyone” goes to college but it’s also trivial to graduate college with no useful skills or mind expansion because it has become more accessible and the bar is lower. So your degree no longer signifies much about you.
In Heinlein's Friday, the heroine visits a future California. The government, having found that those with college degrees earn more money, promptly issues every citizen a bachelor's degree to correct this inequitable situation.
- xyzelement 3y agoHaha fair enough! Or more specifically - NYU recently (2022/2023) fired an organic chemistry professor for teaching a too-hard course - which he had taught the same way for decades - because now that SATs aren't a must for admissions, the student body can't hack it.