One of my favorite lines from all time was in that movie Goodwill Hunting IIRC. He tells the smart ass from Harvard that someday he will wake up and realize he spent $250,000 for an educaiton he could have gotten at the Public Library for the cost of a Library card...Priceless!
Frank Zappa once said, "If you wanna (euphemism for premarital sex), go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
Exactly!
Faculties at institutions of higher education are predominantly activist liberals who never held a job outside of academia. They go straight up through the “ranks” to tenure (speed can depend you how “correct” your thinking is).
These activists have an enormous impact on policy and regulations from what they pump out with their “research.”
“One of my favorite lines from all time was in that movie Goodwill Hunting IIRC. He tells the smart ass from Harvard that someday he will wake up and realize he spent $250,000 for an educaiton he could have gotten at the Public Library for the cost of a Library card...Priceless!”
I like the quote!
Never saw the movie... any good?
Charles Murray is right! What is needed are high quality, certifiable, and reliable credentialing exams.
On the college level, little work that is done in the U.S. specifically needs a B.S. degree. Employers demand it because it is one way to avoid the “racist” charge and to determine if the applicant has the literacy, numeracy, IQ, personal discipline, and focus to do the job. Credentialing exams might help break this high education log jam of degrees.
Why not start credentialing exams in first grade? If the child **proves** with a credentialing exam that he has mastered a specific subject, he would immediately move on ( using Khan or other system) to the next level.
Imagine how many **years** sooner many children could be finishing high school and moving on to college level work. For the young person to have and extra 2 to 6 years in his career adds up to a quarter of a million to perhaps a million or ** more** for that young person over a lifetime.
We could start immediately. Any child of any age who passes the GED or similar exam should be awarded a standard high school diploma from their local government indoctrination camp ( oops! “school”). They would then be free to move onto college courses or to other post high school career training.
By the way...All government teachers should be required to take the GED. If they fail ( most would fail the math section) they should be fired. And...All government teachers should take Calculus I right along with the engineers, math, and science majors. Do most need Calculus I? No, they don't, but it would assure that they have a high enough IQ to merit sitting in front of a class of prisoners ( Oops! “students”).
He tells the smart ass from Harvard that someday he will wake up and realize he spent $250,000 for an educaiton he could have gotten at the Public Library for the cost of a Library card...Priceless!”””
Sure explains Barry the Imposter to me.
Good luck convincing an employer to take you on with that library card.
“He tells the smart ass from Harvard that someday he will wake up and realize he spent $250,000 for an educaiton he could have gotten at the Public Library for the cost of a Library card...Priceless!”
Indeed. The information and education is there if you have the motivation to do it. What high tuition provides is the personalized incentive, badgering, and certification of work done.
MIT’s curriculum, all of it, is available at http://ocw.MIT.edu - a top tier education if you’ll just DO IT.
So long as people demand top quality education and make clear cost is no object (by signing up for absurd loans), supply-and-demand dictate they will be charged a corresponding cost. If motivated, hit the library and internet for the education, and as noted get the lower courses at a cheap college and then go for the valuable certification when you know, and can afford, its cost.
I’m amazed at how many enter college with either no intention or no understanding of “do the work”. You don’t just plunk down the credit card, sit a few hours, and expect to know a marketable skill.