Today's column: The Moral Wages of the College Admissions Mania was particularly good. Most colleges are walking dead in my view.
But many remain and will for a long time.
This quote quote reminded me of an article from Scientific America a long time ago. Something about the object of an education is not hammer - it's carpentry.
He wrote:
Barry Schwartz, who taught psychology at Swarthmore from 1971 to 2016, said in an interview just before he retired that his current students “want to be given a clear and unambiguous path to success.”I thought that was tragic.
“They want a recipe,” he told me. “And that’s the wrong thing to be wanting. Recipes create cooks. They don’t produce chefs.”
