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Should we go the way of high school and have universal access?
And if we do, will college go the way of high school and become universally devalued? Will Master's Degrees and PhDs become the new gold standard for employment at the grocery store?
Thursday, July 24, 2008
HIgher Eduation
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Interesting article. When they talk about the skills that workers need to obtain in school, I always wonder what they have in mind. What are these "skills" that require a higher and higher level of education? I think that the real problem for employers is that they need workers who can write, speak, and think intelligently, and they aren't getting them. High schools have not kept pace with this demand and so college is becoming the new high school. They make is sound like upper education needs to be some kind of big vocational program to give people skills like word processing or auto repair, which I think is not the case.
I disagree with them that college is closed and hard to access. I think that nearly anyone who wants to go to college can go, although it is true that the student loans that follow might be crushing and not every student can
(or should) go to any college they choose. I wonder if the rewards for college are still as great as they claim and worth the loans.
The entire premise of these kinds of studies always grates on me, though, since it treats kids as commodities who have no life beyond work. All schools need to do is give kids the correct skill set to keep the employers happy. I recognize that people need to be able to find jobs, but isn't there more to life than that? Haven't we done ourselves a disservice by treating education as nothing more than a means to job?
I've speculated before that the higher education market will under go some major changes in the future. The spiraling cost and the new options via technology are changing the face of the market.
believe that at some point higher education as we know it may cease to exist.
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