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Article: For most people, college is a waste of time.(Case Study)(Reprint)(Essay)
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- The Forensic Examiner
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Imagine that America had no system of postsecondary education, and you were a member of a task force assigned to create one from scratch. One of your colleagues submits this proposal:
First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will take 4 years to achieve no matter what is being taught. We will attach an economic reward to it that seldom has anything to do with what has been learned. We will urge large numbers of people who do not possess adequate ability to try to achieve the goal, wait until they have spent a lot of time and money, and then deny it to them. We will stigmatize everyone who doesn't ...