Jill

I found the following article in the US News and World Report to be
interesting.
On Society: JOHN LEO
on the new pursuit of trivia in academia.
"The junk courses creep in because much of the professoriate now believes
that nothing can truly be known, so nothing truly matters. From this it
follows that juggling, horror movies, and serious courses all have equal
claims on students' attention."
(my spell checker says that professoriate is an incorrect spelling - just an
aside)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/opinion.htm

When I started unschooling I pretty readily accepted that there was no
specific set of data that we should all have to know. (I believe this was
recently discussed on this loop). It is one of the reasons I believe
testing is a complete waste of time. It is only more recently that I have
begun to question the value of a University education from the point of view
of becoming educated rather than as a requirement to enter the job market.
In this article the author states that colleges are "unwilling to say what a
sound education might consist of." I don't know how true that statement is
but it raises some interesting questions - at least in my mind.

Jill