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Why Do We Send Our Kids To College To Earn Degrees We Know Are Worthless?

Fifty years ago there weren’t any “worthless” degrees. For example, I graduated with a BA in Philosophy, answered a newspaper ad on a whim, and, lo and behold, was launched into a successful career in Information Technology. (I had never seen a computer.) College in America no longer works the way it used to: The […]