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Disarming the College Degree Race
http://www.utne.com/politics/college-degree-arms-race-zm0z13sozlin.aspx#axzz2jQ5ZBx9FDisarming the College Degree Arms Race
Our elaborate, expensive system of higher education is first and foremost a system of stratification, and only secondly—and very dimly—a system for imparting knowledge. It’s time to disarm the college degree arms race.
By Christopher Glazek, from n+1
September/October 2013
Che Guevara once declared that the duty of intellectuals was to commit suicide as a class; a more modest suggestion along the same lines is for the credentialed to join the uncredentialed in shredding the diplomas that paper over the undemocratic infrastructure of American life. A master’s degree, we might find, burns brighter than a draft card
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