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Charles Murray on Education

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Charles Murray has a provocative column summarizing a recent book on why college is overvalued. As Murray puts it, hardly anyone would think the following is a good system, if designed from scratch: First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will take four years to achieve no matter what is being taught. We will attach an economic reward to it that often has nothing to do with what has been learned. We will urge large numbers of people who do not possess adequate ability to try to achieve the goal, wait until they have spent a lot of time and money, and then deny it to them. We will stigmatize everyone who doesn?t meet the goal. We will call the goal a ?BA.?In Murray's view, many if not most occupations do not really require 4 years of specialized study, and many people are neither inclined nor interested in 4 years of generalized education...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).