Professor lashes out at valueless higher ed in liberal magazine

Washington Examiner ^ | Dec 11, 2017 | Brendan Pringle

[Bernard]

"Liberal Arts" = "Pursuits Of The Idle Rich". Great program if you don't need to exploit it in order to make a living. On the other hand, people who need to be employed to live in the middle class would be better off pursuing an education that will provide a basis for later life.

Then those people could go back and study Art History when they retire.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

It’s actually darn near a crime against humanity that vocational education is not the default high school curriculum. For the top 10% of students academically, great go to college. But for the other 90%, instead of experiencing failure, they could be on a path to success and six-figure income in just a few years. Instead, far too many just drop out altogether, or “graduate” to minimum wage, dead-end jobs.

[ops33]

You are right about the worthless degrees. What is needed is a marketable skill, not just an education.