For John, BLUF: Not everyone needs a college diploma, but everyone needs an inquisitive mind. Nothing to see here; just move along.
From USA Today we have an OpEd from Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker♠ as a possible Presidential Candidate. The article is "Scott Walker's national education effect". The theme is "The college dropout governor may bring reality back to an Ivy League-suffocated government."
Here is the lede:
A lot of people don't know much about him yet, and he may not even be running, but if Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is elected president in 2016, he'll immediately accomplish something that no other candidate being talked about can: He'll lay to rest the absurd belief that you're a nobody if you don't have a college degree. And he might even cut into the surprisingly recent takeover of our institutions by an educated mandarin class, something that just might save the country.While I encourage people to get a college degree, I do not believe everyone needs a college degree. It does broaden one's outlook and access to information. And it can be a door opener for a job interview.
Hat tip to the Instapundit.
Regards — Cliff
♠ For the readers of The New York Times that would be Mr Scott.
Not as simple as it looks when more than just the interview help is considered. Many consider it a prerequisite for the step out of the lowerclass (not for those wealthy by inheritance or those very few with super meritocratic attributes), but for the vast majority. First generation college graduates like us know our opportunities were greater than our parents.
ReplyDeleteBut of course the real pay off for society is the inquisitiveness and understanding of how important learning is that each graduate is exposed to.