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by hga
5513 days ago
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You're right, in that a bachelor's degree per se no longer means what it did, but my point about high school diplomas is that what most everyone got, as of say the Silent Generation (my parents'), used to mean quite a lot. However, by or sometime after say 1955 when Why Johnny Can't Read was published it apparently wasn't even a guarantee of functional reading (I wouldn't directly know, having grown up in a city that Reader's Digest reported on a year or two later with the title "Why Johnny Can Read In Joplin"). Ny point here is that "everybody goes there" wasn't to the best I can tell a factor in the degradation of the high school diploma. I'm pretty sure the expansion of colleges and universities due to the G.I. Bill etc. didn't result in too much of a loss in higher education, that seemed to arrive in the cultural '60s (due to draft deferments and the general Zeitgeist) and very few if any colleges avoided some grade inflation and watering down of the curriculum or its rigor (not even MIT). Anyway, I don't see these formal educational developments really fitting into the Christensen framework, it's not like the real world where an excavator or a disk drive must perform at some minimal level to get the job done. --- Thanks for the warnings on the subsequent books, which I haven't read. The first is indeed a jewel, and thanks to my background I could tell that his primary data set on disk drives was spot on, as seemed to be his conclusions. I'll be careful if I decide to go back to the well. (Have to run, tornado warning....) |
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