I was running through the de.licio.us hotlist yesterday when I came upon an article entitled “Americas most overrated Product: the bachelors degree”. The article went on to opine that for many, a secondary education is a way to waste over eight (yes, eight) years of their life only to wind up with a mostly worthless piece of paper and a staggering amount of debt.
I would have dismissed the article out of hand had it not been written by Marty Nemko, an education consultant who has worked with the presidents of 15 universities. Mr. Nemko begins his piece with a statistic that absolutely floored me:
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