Higher education is in an expensive muddle with too many useless degrees

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6. Yes, of course they are

The Powers That Be have convinced Today's Impressionable Youth that the trades are beneath them.

I saw a frightening thing last year, just before Christmas: the local free newspaper (the Inlander) had "If you could invent something, what would it be?" as their man-on-the-street question of the week. They asked five people and all five answered, "an app to..." We are rapidly approaching the point where the apocryphal Charles Holland Duell quote "everything that can be invented has been invented" is the truth. Think about it: when was the last time a truly NEW thing was invented? Something that allows its owner to do something humankind has never been able to do before? I can't think of a thing, but I can think of hundreds of inventions in the last month alone that sought to improve on something we already had.