I agree that we don't need to abandon college. However, I do believe we must abandon the idea that a college degree is a mechanism by which we can accurately determine an potential employee's baseline education, intelligence, and ultimately, their value.
For all the value you've derived from school, there will be 100 more individuals in your graduating class that never achieve a 10th of what you have.
I really enjoyed the recent New Yorker article on "Why we have college," where two different theories for the purpose of college are presented. Personally, I'm a fan of the second theory:
I agree that we don't need to abandon college. However, I do believe we must abandon the idea that a college degree is a mechanism by which we can accurately determine an potential employee's baseline education, intelligence, and ultimately, their value.
For all the value you've derived from school, there will be 100 more individuals in your graduating class that never achieve a 10th of what you have.
I really enjoyed the recent New Yorker article on "Why we have college," where two different theories for the purpose of college are presented. Personally, I'm a fan of the second theory:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/06/06/110...