The Evaporation of Education
The Evaporation of Education
Show Notes
Higher education is going extinct.
Tuitions are sky high forcing parents to take out second mortgages or kids to mortgage their future by owing $300,000 to teach history in high school for $60,000.
Brick and mortar is giving way to remote learning.
Government is increasingly intervening in college admissions, curricula, and hiring.
The Epstein and other sexual scandals are undermining (and ending the careers) of faculty and university officials. The president of Ohio State just resigned because it was revealed that he had a sexual liaison with a woman bidding to do business with the school. The next president will be the fourth in five years.
Ideology rules the classroom among tenured professors who can't be fired short of committing arson.
Today and tomorrow, competence is trumping credential. Harvard had to create A+ to differentiate among all the A's everyone automatically receives. Is that really a valid degree?
Think twice before you go into hock to send your kid to college. Look around. This decision does not require a college degree.
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Introduction to the show recorded by Connie Dieken
