Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review Questions the College System
"Folks, there's a big elephant in the classroom. The fact is, the old-fashioned model of post-secondary education in the U.S. is pretty much broken."
Just when I was starting to think I was a lonely, tiny voice who bothered at all to question the sacred institution we call college -I find a Harvard faculty member who makes some critical observations about higher education and has the guts to post them in an article on Harvard's Own Business Review!
Bronwyn Fryer says"
"Instead of preparing students for real-life, three-squares-and-a roof-over-your-head jobs, too many colleges charge massive tuition fees to impart the finer points of Proust."
Fryer also points out in her article, "Is College Working", that she has nothing against Proust or a liberal arts education. But she makes a very good point by posing the question; "why, in this economy, should I take on a massive debt for an education that's disconnected from the real world?"
Read the full article here:
Harvard Business Editor's Blog
Is College Working?
Thursday January 29, 2009
by Bronwyn Fryer
By the way, if you'd like to learn more about the work of Marcel Proust, you can get this book on Amazon.com or take a FREE online course in French and even share your thoughts in an online discussion of French Literature. (All for a mere fraction of the cost of a Harvard Credit Hour Course!)
April 22, 2009
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