tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3017947851444241331..comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Religion of EducationStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-45296200084073753582011-11-23T00:38:51.054-08:002011-11-23T00:38:51.054-08:00At the root of America's fascination with coll...At the root of America's fascination with college are the so-called affirmative action and equal opportunity statues.<br /><br />The nation is still doing penance for black slavery and the century of legislated second-class citizenship imposed on blacks that followed emancipation. Only when all forms of state-sponsored racialism, race-slavery, Jim Crow and AA, are stricken for the law books with America's national penance for racism reach a just end.Micha Elyihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13342792492539185940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-14887888336575347752011-11-19T14:34:22.596-08:002011-11-19T14:34:22.596-08:00Good post. I do think education has become a reli...Good post. I do think education has become a religion, and one effect of the credential-worship has been to seriously inhibit social mobility. Just as the requirement for an aristocratic background once inhibited the full use of many talents in a society, the requirement for a bachelor's degree for a factory shift supervisor or an MBA for a bank region manager or an Ivy League degree for a lawyer or investment banker is now having a similar effect in America.<br /><br />It is ironic, because a big part of the justification for the huge increases in ed spending over the last many decades has been that it was supposed to *increase* social mobility.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com