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For example, I certainly favor some restrictions on males and females being alone in a dorm room overnight.
This proposal isn't going to sell, and shouldn't. What students do on their own time, if it's legal, is a private matter. I'd prefer to reform higher education by exposing students to ideas - in class and out - that challenge their prior beliefs and get them to think.
This proposal isn't going to sell, and shouldn't. What students do on their own time, if it's legal, is a private matter. I'd prefer to reform higher education by exposing students to ideas - in class and out - that challenge their prior beliefs and get them to think.
I am big on restarting the apprecenticeship systems. But convince business, law and other professions of that.
Great idea and I may start a thread on that tomorrow. Or later.
There is no argument from me that the professions like law and medicine should keep a requirement for bachelor's degrees. We can probably list career fields and professions that actually require graduate degrees, and those that require graduate degrees obviously require bachelor's degrees.
But I'd argue that nearly every job today that "requires" only a bachelor's degree...doesn't actuaLLY require one at all. I'd argue that all those jobs really require--at most--an Associates degree and/or technical certifications.
There is no argument from me that the professions like law and medicine should keep a requirement for bachelor's degrees. We can probably list career fields and professions that actually require graduate degrees, and those that require graduate degrees obviously require bachelor's degrees.
But I'd argue that nearly every job today that "requires" only a bachelor's degree...doesn't actuaLLY require one at all. I'd argue that all those jobs really require--at most--an Associates degree and/or technical certifications.
I am a lawyer, not a doctor. I vociferously support allowing apprenticeships for lawyers, even without a Bachelor's degree.
I am big on restarting the apprecenticeship systems. But convince business, law and other professions of that.
Great idea and I may start a thread on that tomorrow. Or later.
Internships are basically apprenticeships. Unfortunately, liberals have pushed to eliminate unpaid internships, which for decades served as low cost training programs to teach young people a profession. As usual, ideology defeated common sense, and now it's much more expensive to train entry levels.
The unintended consequence will be that young people will be locked out unless they pay to play, or have a relative in the firm, or can get their training abroad. Similarly, graduate students have recently been designated as employees, a fundamental transformation of a centuries old system of training future scholars.
Liberals are like locusts, rapaciously devouring everything in their path.
Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk There is no argument from me that the professions like law and medicine should keep a requirement for bachelor's degrees. We can probably list career fields and professions that actually require graduate degrees, and those that require graduate degrees obviously require bachelor's degrees.
But I'd argue that nearly every job today that "requires" only a bachelor's degree...doesn't actuaLLY require one at all. I'd argue that all those jobs really require--at most--an Associates degree and/or technical certifications.
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Originally Posted by jbgusa
I am a lawyer, not a doctor. I vociferously support allowing apprenticeships for lawyers, even without a Bachelor's degree.
Well, if there is an argument from you, okay, then.
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