Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Charles Murray contends that for many young people, it is. Read his iconoclastic piece here.
For most students, he argues, college does little or nothing to provide or enhance useful knowledge and skills. What is accomplishes, at much cost, is to give people and institutions higher up on the economic food chain some grounds for deciding who is most trainable. Instead of trying to make the bachelor’s degree do something it was not originally expected to, why not offer certification in different fields of knowledge for the bulk of young people who just want to hit the occupational ground running?
I’ll have a review of Murray’s new book Real Education next week.
