{"id":196083,"date":"2008-05-25T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/25\/should-college-be-necessary\/"},"modified":"2008-05-25T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T11:06:00","slug":"should-college-be-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/25\/should-college-be-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Should College be Necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frequently, this question is phrased as, &#8220;Is college necessary?&#8221;, but to any observer, it is clear that the answer to <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">that<\/span> question is, &#8220;Yes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, degrees, or more advanced degrees, are required for positions that in earlier times did not require this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Professor X&#8221;, who serves as an adjunct professor at a community college and a private liberal arts school, asks this question, and he concludes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200806\/college\">the current educational requirements of our job market are unecessary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An argument that the goal of universal College Education is not in the best interest of society.<\/p>\n<p>The thesis is that much of education is a racket, with the modern American workplace as a co-conspirator.  I agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequently, this question is phrased as, &#8220;Is college necessary?&#8221;, but to any observer, it is clear that the answer to that question is, &#8220;Yes&#8221;. Increasingly, degrees, or more advanced degrees, are required for positions that in earlier times did not require this. &#8220;Professor X&#8221;, who serves as an adjunct professor at a community college and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1002],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-good-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}