Colleges Have an Education Problem

Proposed three solutions to the college credentialism problem:

1. Recycled Scott Alexander’s “college degrees should be banned from job applications” which, Scott still doesn’t understand that everything you’re not supposed to make hiring decisions based on is exactly what hiring decisions are based on.

2. Bring back 1) mandatory military service (not a great look) or 2) mandatory civil service à la CCC. At least the author understands what a bad idea this is.

3. Magically separate the credential function from the research preparation function. To my knowledge, has only worked in government-run laboratories during wartime (and those were still mostly good ol’ boy networks).

In short, a lot of text for no actionable items.

University level education will self destruct as more and more students reach for GPT and are not learning anything.