Nerd News: the Devalued College Degree

Read it and weep.

This is the obvious outcome of trying to "give" a college degree to everybody whether they're capable of earning one or not, the obvious outcome of "racing to the bottom" and lowering standards. Social engineering by edu-crats demands it! The entitlement mentality and the fixation on "equality of outcome" demand it. Who cares about the actual substantive meaning of things? Or the fact that grossly overselling higher education is creating a massive student loan bubble that's going to burst just like the housing bubble? Don't even get me started on ever-increasing government meddling. You think Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were bad? Wait 'til you get an eyeful of Sallie Mae.

The bachelor's degree already means almost nothing, similar to how a high school degree now basically isn't worth the paper it's printed on (and that's the brutal honest truth especially in terms of public schools). A few decades of edu-crats and teachers' unions run amok have all but destroyed the public school system (just look at California schools) and utterly eviscerated the curriculum. Now we're all more concerned about trendy buzzwords, edu-theory, and PC approaches to everything than we're concerned that kids know basic life skills like reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. Then they end up in a college classroom and turn into my problem. They think college is just a glorified version of high school. And if they run into loopy campus ideologues and actually buy that nonsense, they might as well kiss goodbye to any chance they'll learn anything useful. College will be a four-year-long, debt-accumulating binge of waste in every sense of the word. WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT?

There is a poisonous, perilous nexus between high school and college.

Anyway, a college degree SHOULD be hard and substantive in order to mean something. You SHOULD have to bust your butt to get one, and not everyone's going to have one if you do it right. It's not being discriminatory to say that people who can't hack it won't have it. In fact, the whole thing reminds me of a great scene from "A League of Their Own." The good stuff begins at the 2:00 mark.