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According to Page Smith, a longtime professor at UCLA, “the vast majority of the so-called research turned out in the modern university is essentially worthless.
Derek Bok • Higher Education in America
The issue now and during the next decade is access to the center of gravity of the technocracy, the leading universities that not only teach subjects but train you in the social rituals that allow you to belong to the technocracy. Those universities are increasingly closed to those who didn’t descend from this group.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
there is no evidence of convergence of minority-majority graduation rates over the last thirty-five years, once you include incarcerated populations in the totals.
Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
The educated, hardworking masses are still doing what they’re told, but they’re no longer getting what they deserve. – Seth Godin
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
The second problem is that being a university professor is among the highest-paid part-time work in the world.