Reply #73: If I were running the world of higher education, students would have [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

to prove that they had some sort of intellectual interest, even to apply. That intellectual interest could be anything--astronomy, poetry, history, chemistry, psychology, foreign languages--but they'd have to demonstrate that they had something they read about, studied, and perhaps participated in beyond the required school curriculum.

Such students would be admitted free, regardless of income, with a living stipend.

Others would go to schools aimed at preparation for specific jobs, with curricula of one to three years, or would sign up for apprenticeships or internships that provided on-the-job training. There is no need for a four-year degree in Personnel Management or Corporate Health and Fitness or Law Enforcement, for goodness sake.

Most of this training would be done by industry associations.