More College Students Means Dumber College Students?
As if it comes as a shock, news agencies are reporting that more people going to college doesn’t actually mean more smart people. Schools, including colleges, are really as much sorting mechanisms as educational institutions. And as colleges and universities define the quality of their programs by the economic outcomes of graduates, it’s no surprise that other definitions of quality get shunted aside.
Given that about 1/3 of the American population never gets beyond Piaget’s stage of concrete operations, it’s no surprise that college education for people with less academic potential doesn’t produce the same results as college does for more gifted students. This is especially so when those less proficient students are in it for the money.
Let’s face the difficult to accept truth: Education depends on the natural abilities, inclinations and motivations of the student. College in and of itself is only what the student makes of […]
Original post by urbansocrates
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