On Jan 9, 9:02*pm, George Plimpton wrote:
On 1/5/2012 3:15 PM, HeyBub wrote:





Existential Angst wrote:

YET, college enrollment sets new records every year. * WTF????

Don't know how the stats are compiled tho -- if they include ivy,
public/private, on-line, and these dinky for-profit ripoffs that
proliferate/advertise all over.

Well, some dinky for-profit (i.e., not a government school) don't reall
advertise. I'm thinking of Harvard, William& *Mary, etc.

If the stats are "legit", I find this surprising. *They say unemployed
people "go back to school", but I wonder if that's really true or
part of the current stats. *visavis "retraining".
I'd like the stats on high-schoolers going to legit 4 year schools,
and sep stats for junior colleges. And trade schools.

The University of Houston ranks number two in the state in the number of
warm bodies enrolled. It ranks about ninth in the number of classroom hours
of instruction inasmuch as over half its student body attends class at
night.

Personally, I think 4 year colleges are highly over-rated, except as
the "entre" they provide for having that piece of paper -- whose
value varies tremendously with the school, ivy obviously being the
better entre.

Would you "entre" someone who has a degree in Black or Women's Studies,
History of Pellopenesia, Non-Traditional Religions, Gay Literature Studies,
Elementary Education, and similar? I wouldn't even hire someone whose name
was Chlamydia.

You should not even invite in for an interview anyone with a degree in
anything that has "studies" in the name. *It is the hallmark of
intellectually worthless programs that have no academic rigor and are
nothing but ideological propaganda. *This is especially true if the word
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Very true. Also in the UK.