The four-year college degree has come to cost too much and prove too little. It's now a bad deal for the average student, family, employer, professor and taxpayer.
A student who secures a degree is increasingly unlikely to make up its cost, despite higher pay, and the employer who requires a degree puts faith in a system whose standards are slipping. Too many professors who are bound to degree teaching can't truly profess; they don't proclaim loudly the things they know but instead whisper them to a chosen few, whom they must then accommodate with inflated grades.
Worst of all, bright citizens spend their lives not knowing the things they ought to know, because they've been granted liberal-arts degrees for something far short of a liberal-arts education.
I'm not arguing against higher learning but for it -- and against the degree system that stands in its way.
[Here-here to that last, if not so much the title. The system is the problem, we need move to a wider array of speciality degreeS taught primarily over the internet for free. That's how we get higher learning to the masses and provide for the rapid 'retooling' we're constantly told the future will require of our workforce going forward.
The hold up? The usual: the vast sums of money in our current system and its corrupting influence on our policy politics.]
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