The moment someone decided to run higher education as a business was the beginning of the long slide to where we are now, in academics and college sports. I was an educator at the college level for 26+ years and despite all efforts by my peers & colleagues across several institutions, here we are. Keep on fighting the good fight, everyone. Thanks for your insight Peter.
The moment someone decided to run higher education as a business was the beginning of the long slide to where we are now, in academics and college sports. I was an educator at the college level for 26+ years and despite all efforts by my peers & colleagues across several institutions, here we are. Keep on fighting the good fight, everyone. Thanks for your insight Peter.
That is why the US illiteracy rate is 20%, and growing. Even college freshmen fall into this category reading at below a 5th-grade level. The US should be ashamed. I am a US citizen with a 14-year-old son living in Portugal and will never consider moving back to the US. The illiteracy rate here is less than 5% and incredible because, before the revolution in 1975, it was 50%! Why do you think Trump got elected?
The 'aliteracy' rate (those who can read but chose not to) is even more frightening and alarming, and the reason why 'nobody reads books anymore,' especially in the US. The latest debacle is Costco removing their book sections in stores, because 'it's too much trouble.' (US citizen living in Norway with two kids who read books)
PS. My father was a college professor of Romance languages for 16 years. He finally gave up, took a welding course, and worked for GE welding locomotive engines for another 16 years until he retired. He was happier welding!
The moment someone decided to run higher education as a business was the beginning of the long slide to where we are now, in academics and college sports. I was an educator at the college level for 26+ years and despite all efforts by my peers & colleagues across several institutions, here we are. Keep on fighting the good fight, everyone. Thanks for your insight Peter.
That is why the US illiteracy rate is 20%, and growing. Even college freshmen fall into this category reading at below a 5th-grade level. The US should be ashamed. I am a US citizen with a 14-year-old son living in Portugal and will never consider moving back to the US. The illiteracy rate here is less than 5% and incredible because, before the revolution in 1975, it was 50%! Why do you think Trump got elected?
The 'aliteracy' rate (those who can read but chose not to) is even more frightening and alarming, and the reason why 'nobody reads books anymore,' especially in the US. The latest debacle is Costco removing their book sections in stores, because 'it's too much trouble.' (US citizen living in Norway with two kids who read books)
No way the illiteracy rate is only 20%. Maybe 20% of American humans are literate?
PS. My father was a college professor of Romance languages for 16 years. He finally gave up, took a welding course, and worked for GE welding locomotive engines for another 16 years until he retired. He was happier welding!
A friend of mine was a professor of German language and literature.
He now drives a truck.
Tradies get the ladies, say the good people of Australia.