Educação é demais (se é educação falsa) - o caso dos EUA

Walter E. Williams explica: "... A recent study from The Center for College Affordability and Productivity titled "From Wall Street to Wal-Mart," by Richard Vedder, Christopher Denhart, Matthew Denhart, Christopher Matgouranis and Jonathan Robe, explains that college education for many is a waste of time and money...
The nation's college problem is far deeper than the fact that people simply are overqualified for particular jobs. Citing the research of AEI scholar Charles Murray's book Real Education (2008), Vedder says: "The number going to college exceeds the number capable of mastering higher levels of intellectual inquiry. This leads colleges to alter their mission, watering down the intellectual content of what they do."
In other words, colleges dumb down courses so that the students they admit can pass them...
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, authors of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (2011), report on their analysis of more than 2,300 undergraduates at 24 institutions. Forty-five percent of these students demonstrated no significant improvement in a range of skills – including critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing – during their first two years of college...
Much of American education is in shambles. Part of a solution is for colleges to refuse to admit students who are unprepared to do real college work....
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