Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 12/12/24 11:56 PM, Rich wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

It is so strange.  Your program fails the most nr of people, and has
the most nr of people leave the program.  This is bad.  However...
when we look at if the students get jobs after their education, your
program has a 100% job ratio, and all of your students get salaries
above the average for their age group.  This is so strange!

 “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary
depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-get-a-man-to-understand-something

   Wow ... he understood this SO far back !
   But then there have been bureaucracies, and pointy-haired
   bosses, since antiquity ...

This is why college success measures should be based upon how
employable their graduates are.  Gone (or seriously reduced in size)
would be all the degree programs that don't produce gainfully
employable graduates.
 Instead the measure is how much student loan money they can hoover out
of each student during the student's time on campus.  And by that
measure they are all resounding successes.

   MONEY, rather than MERIT, has always been important - but
   I think it's become SO much the over-riding factor now
   that The Future is seriously endangered.
   Read back to the early universities. MOST students were
   just fops, kids of Rich Guys. They were sent there for
   'prestige' reasons, NOT to actually LEARN anything.
   Indeed it was considered pedestrian for 'gentlemen' TO
   learn anything. We're talking 1300s/1400s here ... the
   pattern was set .......
   As for the know-nothing kiddies getting high salaries ...
   maybe think of it in 'evolutionary' terms. They will
   destroy their employers, then move on and destroy even
   more employers. In the end, moronic employers will
   be selected-against  :-)