(12-09-2017 09:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...or/546590/

Author's thesis: the primary benefit of college for the vast majority is simply a credential. Should be required reading for any politician making decisions on education.

It also explains some of the mind-numbingly stupid comments and actions you see from supposedly educated people these days.

"...In 2003, the United States Department of Education gave about 18,000 Americans the National Assessment of Adult Literacy. The ignorance it revealed is mind-numbing. Fewer than a third of college graduates received a composite score of “proficient”—and about a fifth were at the “basic” or “below basic” level. You could blame the difficulty of the questions—until you read them. Plenty of college graduates couldn’t make sense of a table explaining how an employee’s annual health-insurance costs varied with income and family size, or summarize the work-experience requirements in a job ad, or even use a newspaper schedule to find when a television program ended. Tests of college graduates’ knowledge of history, civics, and science have had similarly dismal results...."

College is overrated? You don't say. For sure we'd have fewer college dropouts or even grads living at home if they hadn't gone in the first place.