In the age of diploma mills and the increasingly prohibitive cost of higher education, Aronowitz takes a look at what is really at stake with higher education. Although some of the ideas are a little far fetched for me (I think the commune idea is a good example of an approach, but not a solution), I feel that he hits home that we need to assess what is it that we are trying to do with higher ed.
If students want a job, we should promote trade school or vocational school with as much energy that we promote the university. Not all people are cut out for nor need the university and that's ok--but we've placed such a stigma on those who aren't university educated and held it to this pedestal that it's damaging education and the act of teaching in the long run.
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Gerry C. Potter
Questioning the Higher Ed Machine
Reviewed in Canada on 18 February 2018Stephamm
basic reading for anyone who wants to understand the predicament of the American university system
Reviewed in the United States on 22 November 2009