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When I was a kid having a college degree was a really significant achievement. Having a GPA over 3.0 was similarly a considerable source well-deserved pride. I graduated college with a 3.54 GPA magna cum laude and felt that this was a significant accomplishment.
Now I see kids with BA's - - often in what can only be described as meaningless fields - - who are utterly and almost completely unable to express themselves in written form and whose breadth of vocabulary is profoundly impoverished.
As we move forward with this educational inflation, I wonder where this will all end. When people move on to all get masters degrees I'd say we're running out of runway room. Eventually this will probably extend to Ph.D.'s and, at that point, there's no more room for any further inflation (unless we start making up new degrees).
There was a time when one's educational accomplishments were a reliable differentiator of intellect and aptitude. While still true to a significantly attenuated extent, that is now waning.
Certainly, to a large extent, society is to blame in its mad push to send every kid to college while trivializing and, in some cases, denigrating, the importance of trade schools and educating skilled workers. But something has to be done to stem this rising tide of meaningless college degrees being handed out like 'participation trophies' to undeserving recipients.
Now I see kids with BA's - - often in what can only be described as meaningless fields - - who are utterly and almost completely unable to express themselves in written form and whose breadth of vocabulary is profoundly impoverished.
As we move forward with this educational inflation, I wonder where this will all end. When people move on to all get masters degrees I'd say we're running out of runway room. Eventually this will probably extend to Ph.D.'s and, at that point, there's no more room for any further inflation (unless we start making up new degrees).
There was a time when one's educational accomplishments were a reliable differentiator of intellect and aptitude. While still true to a significantly attenuated extent, that is now waning.
Certainly, to a large extent, society is to blame in its mad push to send every kid to college while trivializing and, in some cases, denigrating, the importance of trade schools and educating skilled workers. But something has to be done to stem this rising tide of meaningless college degrees being handed out like 'participation trophies' to undeserving recipients.