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What's Wrong With the American University System
ideonexus writes "The Atlantic has an excellent interview with Andrew Hacker — co-author with Claudia Dreifus of a book titled Higher Education? — covering everything that's wrong with the American university system. The discussion ranges from entrenched tenured professors more concerned with publishing and parking spaces than quality teaching; to 22-year-old students with unrealistic expectations that some company will put them in a management position after graduating with six-figures of debt; to football teams siphoning money away from academic programs so that student tuitions must increase to compensate. It really lays out the farce of university culture and reminds me of everything I absolutely despised about my college life. Dreifus is active in the comments section of the article as well, lending to a fantastic discussion on the subject."
As a former prospective college student, the biggest turnoff when visiting potential schools and sitting in on classes was the professors' air of sophistication; they all acted like they know something we don't.
In that case, what do all you leeches do when the producers decline to participate in the partnership any more?
First one is basically just a rank of most popular/well known. U of T isn't Canada's most prestigious school in terms of any metric related to quality of programs, it's the most internationally well known and it outranks our actual best school (McGill) by about 80 points.
Check the Methodology on the second one. It's mostly a giant popularity contest where the more well known a school is the higher it's chances of ranking highly. And since America has such a high population they wash out any other country.
I'm not saying America doesn't have some of the best schools overall, with a population your size and the concept of "the American dream" you were able to pull some major skill and form some of the best individual schools, but to say your system as a whole is inherently the best because a lot of your schools rank well is fallacious. You have ridiculous tuition costs, a joke k-12 (I'll admit my countries is actually slightly worse.) which means that most of your schools can't offer that advanced of programs with the number of people who attend after High School. It's the same as how you dominate the olympics. It's not because you have the best sports program necessarily, it's because you have the largest body to pull from and the name recognition to pull talent in.
> "It really lays out the farce of university culture and reminds me of everything
> I absolutely despised about my college life."
No pussy?
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
So you admit you went to a crappy school, good for you. I hope it was cheap.