Adult education, nontraditional education, education for returning students—whatever you want to call it—is a substantial profit center for many colleges. Like factory owners, school administrators are delighted with this idea of mounting a second shift of learning in their classrooms, in the evenings, when the full-time students are busy with such regular extracurricular pursuits of higher education as reading Facebook and playing beer pong. If colleges could find a way to mount a third, graveyard shift, as Henry Ford’s Willow Run did at the height of the Second World War, I believe that they would.
An excerpt from In the Basement of the Ivory Tower published in The Atlantic. Some depressing stuff, but a good read.
From now on I won't be titling the posts with "If You Like To Read." I'll just tag them in the labels so you can find all of them in the topics column.
From now on I won't be titling the posts with "If You Like To Read." I'll just tag them in the labels so you can find all of them in the topics column.
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