College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. - The Washington Post - 32 views
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What truly makes an education valuable: the effort the student puts into it.
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Unlike a car, college requires the “buyer” to do most of the work to obtain its value. The value of a degree depends more on the student’s input than on the college’s curriculum.
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Yet most public discussion of higher ed today pretends that students simply receive their education from colleges the way a person walks out of Best Buy with a television.
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