We force students to go through college .... instead of ...

Richard Hersh, whose work I first came to know about a few years ago, thanks to the AACU, explains how we are losing our minds, and how we are shortchanging students:

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Couldn't think of a better follow-up to my rants, like this one, on the deplorable state of contemporary  higher education!

BTW, I came to this Hersh piece this late, via a friend's post on Facebook, about MIT ... Strange are the ways in which we come across anything anymore--profound and inane :)