Showing posts with label Higher Education Bubble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Higher Education Bubble. Show all posts
Thursday, May 19, 2022

How to save public education

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Kevin Baker - whose blog just celebrated its nineteenth blogoversary - has an uberpost about the dire state of education in this country.  ...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Who needs College?

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Aesop links to John Wilder writing about life paths, and adds his own thoughts.  This part from Aesop's post seems key: A high school ...
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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Tom Nichols is an insufferable elitist prick

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Tom Nichols is back in the news, talking about how gun owners : The “experts” do not have expertise based on an analysis of the empirical...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

A modest proposal to prevent the fall of civilization

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Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. ― Edward Gibbon ...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Tab clearing

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Here's a grab bag of items that are only related by the fact that they're in this grab bag. B alerts us to the fact that a huge am...
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Monday, December 31, 2018

Who needs a University?

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Santa brought me a Go-Pro knockoff for Christmas.  I'd been thinking about mounting one to the dash of the Harley for some motor madness...
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Friday, August 31, 2018

Quote of the Day: Get offa my lawn edition

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The Queen Of The World posted on the Book of Faces: This week we went to play our usual Monday night Trivia, but this time it was a bit di...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Not understanding your opponents goes both ways

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It's clear that the Left does not understand Donald Trump or how he works.  As a result, he is able to keep them focused on whatever his...
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Thursday, April 26, 2018

The failure of the Public Schools

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Even NPR is noticing that a lot of kids don't need to go to College, and can do very well by not going to College: Like most other Am...
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Monday, April 24, 2017

How many people really need to go to college?

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Maybe only 15% . This is really interesting.  I've written at length that you don't even need to graduate from High School to get ...
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Friday, September 9, 2016

I can get behind this

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Teach your children well.
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Thursday, June 30, 2016

No, we don't need more STEM majors in Universities

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Peter has an interesting post up about IQ and field of study in College.  Unsurprisingly, the STEM fields skew towards higher IQ .  Queue th...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Internet Security employment is booming - get you some of that

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I've written a lot about how an alternative to College is to study Internet security .  The pay is good, you can work wherever you like,...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

So what will happen when Bernie makes College free?

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Ignore for a moment that "free" certainly doesn't mean, you know, free .  South Korea has nearly 100% college enrollment.   Wh...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Nobody said that education would be comfortable

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Friday, July 25, 2014

Cheap technical education

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#1 Son is almost all the way through his Cisco CCNA book, and we're getting ready for him to actually take the exam.  He still has a lit...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

Quote of the Day: Higher Education edition

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Read it and weep , Progressives: I f ego were marketable, all Ph.D. graduates would get tenure. RTWT.  Srlsy.  And how i...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The case against STEM

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Captain Capitalism argues (correctly) that STEM majors are better investments than liberal arts .  There is a case to be made against STEM, ...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Cyber security: the enemy isn't at the gates

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They're inside the gates : "We've got North Korea with ICBMs and we've got Iran developing an atomic bomb, but that'...
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