Re:Debating the Value of College in America
by chopsueyar on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @07:34AM
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Education is about personal and intellectual growth, not about winning some race to the top.
But, you just wrote...
Society needs a mechanism for sorting out its more intelligent members from its less intelligent ones, just as a track team needs a mechanism (such as a stopwatch) for sorting out the faster athletes from the slower ones.
Re:Debating the Value of College in America
by Wuzzy on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @08:09AM
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The author is presenting different viewpoints on the role of higher education, not saying he holds them all (because, obviously, they are, at least in part, contradictory, which is also something the author mentioned).
But, you just wrote...
Society needs a mechanism for sorting out its more intelligent members from its less intelligent ones, just as a track team needs a mechanism (such as a stopwatch) for sorting out the faster athletes from the slower ones.