Notre Dame professor: Higher education is 'drowning in BS'

The Washington Examiner ^ | Jan 16, 2018, 1:48 PM | Kate Hardiman

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

He also argued that specialization and the pursuit of majors be put off until graduate school.

So the average person be 24 before you began to learn anything useful.

Did he suggest how you were suppose to actually pay for all this "education"?

[Fiji Hill]

So the average person be 24 before you began to learn anything useful.

A classical education would be extremely useful. It gives the student the ability to think critically and make wise choices over the rest of his lifetime. It would also give him a solid background for the pursuit of whatever career he desires.

St. John's College, with campuses in Maryland and New Mexico offers this sort of curriculum, based entirely on the Great Books.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

What are your qualifications?

I have read the great books and can think critically about things.

So what is the statistical probability of our chicken fried grapefruit franchise succeeding in Sopchoppy?

Errrr....

Next!

[ladyjane]

There are many Chinese students whose parents are high level military or are very well connected who come to the US for college. I hear some of them are not well prepared.

[Fiji Hill]

I have read the great books and can think critically about things.

The Cat in the Hat?

[ully2]

Also end a curriculum that ends in ology.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

He could probably tell you that the Cat represented the author's hidden desire to be a transvestite.

Reading the great books is a good thing. I encourage everyone to do so. It will allow you to think about things in new ways. However if you have no practical skill to go with that then you are pretty much useless.

And staying in school for two decades is not either practical or desirable for the majority of people.