Laelia wrote:
How does being "big business" make college less of the real world? Sure there are all sorts of people at colleges, but there are also lots of future lawyers and doctors and whatever "real world" professionals you care to name, as well as future profs. Attending college is a prerequisite for almost any professional job, and college professors are the ones teaching them. I'm still not seeing how this makes teaching college less "real" than any other professional field.
Because college is not results-oriented. There is no "bottom line". There are no tangible objectives.
Something being a prerequisite does not mean it is a sine qua non. That is why we have the "college bubble".
Wasn't there a Seinfeld episode about a pretentious jerk who through chicanery gets an expensive suit, and is therefore a shoe-in for a good job? Point was, the suit didn't change the fact he was a pretentious jerk with no skills or wisdom. College degrees are like that.
Having a college degree is no different than ghetto kids with gold chains. A massive waste of resources that serves as nothing more than a status symbol.
And yes I agree. Hard sciences degrees are good and substantial, provided they are from institutions with serious hard science programs. But then again, how many Americans go into science? One of the defining characteristics of this "bubble" over the last few decades has been a dramatic decrease in the number of science majors.