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, as I'll show. The employer who requires a degree puts
faith in a system whose standards, you'll see, 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 educat
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