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goodtimepolitics: There you go deleting yourself diogenes, I didn’t have to do anything this time.

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Some thoughts

1) About half of college kids drop out. Now, from a career standpoint, even a year or two of college yields a pay premium, if only a small one, but I don’t doubt that most of these kids matriculated with a four-year degree in mind. In any case, much of what we, as an economy, spend on higher education is purely wasted.

2) A large fraction of the kids who do endure — most of them, I suspect — leave with nothing much to show for their time other than some more or less marketable job skills that they could have acquired much more quickly without Anthropology 101 and Spanish 102 (twice). No one needs four years to learn accounting or specialty IT skills. The bogus degree requirement, which is effectively a subsidy for the higher ed lobby, is the result of the “professionalization” trend in many lines of work, a device to restrict entry. And a sad effect of this racket is the prolongation of adolescence, with consequent social costs that may prove insupportable.

3) Years ago, a high school education was often much superior to today’s college education in every way except beer. Now the clever boys and girls go off to college to acquire the skills and the (presently much decayed) knowledge base that they would already have mastered had they been born before the government high schools began their long decline.

College is unnecessary for most and, nowadays, unrewarding for nearly all, except as an arbitrary credential. Why do we throw so much money at it?

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