[Bret L]

About twenty percent of Americans-I mean Americans overall, all
races, but not including illegal aliens or legal green card residents-
are perhaps capable of real university education, as it was until
modern times. Perhaps thirty percent if one considers all high school
graduates.

A lot more than that are graduating college, such as it is, today.

The costs to society are huge and rarely discussed.

The time and money wasted, the spoiling of employers who now expect a
four year college degree for all sorts of jobs for which no such
requirement logically exists, the operation of a great number of
institutions of 'higher learning' which serve to suck up tax money....

Amy Bishop, whom as I said earlier was bristling with indicators of
insanity and propensity for mayhem and murder, was even on a tenure
track in the first place only because of this demented inflation of
college education.

What would happen if we went back to the sane educational norms of
fifty years ago, February 1960, a world in which manned spaceflight
was entirely thinkable and in which the basics of computer science and
integrated circuit manufacture were established?

Many colleges and universities would close.

The national budget for education, an immense sum, would be
drastically reduced and the nation's deficit also reduced.

Employers would quit demanding a four year college degree for those
jobs where no such thing is required. That includes retail store and
hotel/motel management, most insurance company office jobs, and most
medical industry jobs besides doctor, nurse, or pharmacist.

Pharmacy would probably go back to a four year program, and doctors
would be more able to hang out the shingle immediately after
internship and perhaps a shorter associateship rather than the
extended residencies today. Law schools would have to produce
graduates capable of successfully practicing law as soon as they pass
the bar.....and have almost no graduates fail to do so as so many do
today.

Most importantly, those who do graduate college would have no
difficulty finding employment. Most graduates of scientific and
technical majors would find ready employment in their field of study.
Liberal arts majors would shrink in comparison to fields teaching
useful skills at the undergraduate level.

Graduate schools would also shrink drastically. Every Ph.D produced
would be in a field where needed and most successful holders of the
degree would be employed in academia or in some very relevant private
research program.