Welding Won’t Make You Rich: Is a lucrative
college-free job too good to be true?
The Downside to Career and Technical
Education
The outlook is dim
for Americans without college degrees
The rise in American high-school graduation rates looks puffed-up
Going to university is more important than ever for young people
Elite colleges
boosted women’s earnings and decreased marriage rates
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Liberal Arts
Education – Under Threat
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/12/the-liberal-arts-may-not-survive-the-21st-century/577876/
Pulitzer Prize winning author Marilynne Robinson: What Are We Doing
Here?
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/11/09/what-are-we-doing-here/
Robinson notes:
"“Our great universities, with their vast resources, their exhaustive
libraries, look like a humanist’s dream. Certainly, with the collecting and
archiving that has taken place in them over centuries, they could tell us much
that we need to know. But there is pressure on them now to change
fundamentally, to equip our young to be what the Fabians used to call “brain
workers.” They are to be skilled laborers in the new economy, intellectually
nimble enough to meet its needs, which we know will change constantly and
unpredictably. I may simply have described the robots that will be better suited
to this kind of existence, and with whom our optimized workers will no doubt be
forced to compete, poor complex and distractible creatures that they will be
still.
Why teach the
humanities? Why study them? American universities are literally shaped around
them and have been since their founding, yet the question is put in the
bluntest form—what are they good for?"
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Can Parents ‘Robot-Proof’ Their Child’s Job Future
Six Myths About Choosing a College Major