Failing Schools? Record Number of Americans Have Bachelor's Degrees

[Modern School]

4. No Trouble At All

Are we giving out more Bachelor's Degrees to illiterate and irrational people than we used to? Perhaps, but consider all the morons out there with Bachelor's Degrees, many of whom are running the country and who graduated from our august institutions a generation or three ago.

I'm fully aware of the lacking skills in today's undergrads. However, is there any solid evidence that it is significantly worse than when I was an undergrad 27 years ago. Maybe so. It probably feels that way. It feels like my high school students are coming in each year with fewer skills, too.

Even so, those with the correct combination of factors going for them often develop skills in college because of increased maturity, the shift from seeing oneself as a prisoner of education to seeing education as a tool for personal growth and material well being, and the recognition that they paying for the service.