Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Old thinking. (Score 1) 152
by grcumb (#46502083) Attached to: Eric Schmidt On Why College
Is Still Worth It  'The economic return to higher education over
a lifetime produces significant compound greater earnings.'
That has been true in the past.  Not exactly. You know what was
true in the past? That a good education made you a better
person.  Now, I won't deny for a second that there were numerous
social and economic factors in getting the 'right' education
from the 'right' schools. It's true that being a 'gentleman' was
inextricably tied up with class, economic status and the
clannishness of the privileged. But it was still about being the
right sort of person rather than a more-or-less necessary
precursor to employment. The cost in those days was primarily to
keep the riff-raff out, rather than any reflection of economic
realities (conditions in some British colleges, for example,
were abominable).  In spite of all the hypocrisy and all the
cant, a liberal education wa