I hate that I have to pay $2000 for a meal plan

Vanagandr
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:29:07 +0000

October - I did the same thing ,and now that I am switching colleges which wanted more math and a handful of different general-ed, I will be meting those requirements via CC.

What irritates me more than anything is the overbearing, centrally-planned nature of the whole thing, and Reagan was correct in wanting to abolish the Dept. of Education. That does not go far enough, but it is a step in the right direction.

In lieu, something modelled upon the Chinese civil service examinations of old would provide quality control while leaving things to the free market. For engineering for instance, if a group ABET or IEEE were to formulate a series of tests, and in order to be granted a diploma, one must pass said tests (corresponding to courses like we have now), an entire private industry will spring up preparing people for the exams.

One could say ‘Van, this will never work’, but these examinations in effect ran what was up until the Industrial Era the largest and wealthiest country for a thousand years. If we, in the modern era, could not bring such a thing to fruition, then that speaks volumes about how this worm-eaten bastardised culture compares to that of Sui China.