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The Commercialization of College

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"First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature?" - Hannibal Lecter What is the nature of college? Once you answer that question, these findings are unsurprising: Nearly half of the nation's undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college .... After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change. Why do colleges exist? What is their point? Colleges exist to provide professors with six-figure incomes for doing very little work. Law schools exist for the same reason. If the essence of college is professor enrichment, then student learning is irrelevant...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 18, 2011 (boomark / email).

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