Re: [Pen-l] private vs. state colleges

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Terry McDonough wrote:
> We know why we do 2 [credentialing]... This is forgivable but not particularly defensible. The real question is why society bothers with it.<

I don't think anyone decided to "bother with" credentialing. At some
point, somebody started bragging about going to college or a "better"
college and employers decided college degrees were a simply way to
separate the good candidates from the bad. That meant that more and
more people had to have them.  That erased a lot of the differences
among job candidates, so new and higher credentials had to be invented
or used. It's a self-propelling process.

Also, some credentials do have meaning. I'd rather have a surgeon with
an MD than one without.

-- 
Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine
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