Higher Education in America – too expensive, takes too much time, has a limited “shelf-life", and consists of a great deal of content that has limited practical value

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College does not a higher quality employee make.

No it does not:

The questionable efficacy of additional years of education?

First let me explicitly say that what I am arguing here is not that education is not important or necessary in today’s world, nor would anyone (with a normally functioning brain) try to argue that. The point really is that after a student spends a few years learning basic subjects and masters basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills, the practical and intellectual returns on further years of education diminish. In other words a person’s intellect and critical thinking skills will plateau no …

An interesting and disparaging take on the current education model from an Ivy League millennial

Since the author does such a great job of laying out the facts I’ll just give some relevant quotes from the article (note emphasis is mine): With university administrators at a loss over how to navigate a Covid-plagued fall semester, I’m not surprised that students are now protesting tuition, considering gap years and asking themselves: Is college worth it? I am surprised that it took a pandemic to get to this point. The truth is, Covid-19 didn’t break higher education. The model has been brok…