All Posts Tagged With: "higher education"
The College Scam
What do Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Mark Cuban have in common? They’re all college dropouts. Richard Branson, Simon Cowell, and Peter Jennings? They never went to college at all. But today all kids are told: To succeed, you must go to college. Hillary Clinton tells students: “Graduates from four-year colleges earn nearly [...]
21Sep2011 | John Stossel | 0 comments | ContinuedWe Need to Build Society for “Shared Prosperity”?
In a recent New York Times column (“Degrees and Dollars,” March 6), economist Paul Krugman surprisingly had an “it just ain’t so” moment of his own, taking issue with the widely accepted but erroneous idea that more education is the key to increasing prosperity. While he was right about that, his conclusion that technological changes [...]
25May2011 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedAbout Those English Student Protests
The best thing I’ve read about the English student protests against reduced government subsidies for higher education is here. In “A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” Kevin Carson writes: Aren’t these just a bunch of spoiled brats, throwing a tantrum when they’re cut off from the taxpayer teat? Not exactly. British students, like [...]
16Dec2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedTrembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure
If you listen to spokesmen for the higher-education establishment, America’s colleges and universities are the envy of the world, propelling our economy forward with brilliantly educated young minds. Look only at the bright spots in American higher education and you might well conclude that such praise is merited. But to assume that something is true [...]
8Jul2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedMarket-Based Higher Education
As experience continues to prove that private industry can do things more cost effectively and with better customer satisfaction than governmental entities, debate has shifted to what functions are appropriately in the government’s realm. Over the past several decades various institutions have arisen to challenge the notion that higher education is among the activities that [...]
29Jun2010 | Keith Wade | 1 comment | Continued“Easy Money” Over for College Loans
“The upheaval in financial markets did not just eliminate generous lending for home buyers; it also ended an era of easy credit for students and their families facing the soaring cost of a college degree.” (Washington Post, Monday) If this reporter had attended a FEE seminar he would understand that “easy credit” actually caused the [...]
28Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedAcademic Socialism Versus the Free Market
Academia has long been thought of as the marketplace of ideas, the arena where truth may be pursued through dispassionate discourse and openness to competing views. Yet higher education in America has moved a great distance from this ideal and its practice. (Click title to read more…)
1May2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedInflation: Monetary and Educational
Thanks mainly to the Austrian economists, especially Ludwig von Mises, monetary inflation is a phenomenon that is well understood. When the state overproduces money, certain consequences necessarily ensue. The supply of money is not, however, the only thing that government inflates, or overproduces. Something else it has inflated is the production of educational credentials, college [...]
1May2005 | George C. Leef | 2 comments | ContinuedGrutter v. Bollinger: A Constitutional Embarrassment
“All animals are created equal—but some are more equal than others.” So goes the crucial line in George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Grutter v. Bollinger makes one think of that line, since it gives constitutional approval to the policies used at many colleges and universities that group applicants by [...]
1Nov2003 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedNo More Subsidies for Higher Education
One of the most durable American shibboleths is that the more formal schooling young people get, the better off society will be. President Clinton, for example, proposed that we have a universal K-14 system, which would mean that the state would no longer be content with keeping children in school through high school, but that [...]
1Jul2002 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/2
Voodoo Science by Robert Park Oxford University Press — 2000 — 230 pages — $25.00 Reviewed by Patrick J. Michaels I really wanted to like Robert Park’s Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud a lot more than I did. It’s a pretty good book about how bad science manages to prosper and replicate, [...]
1Feb2002 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedReaffirming Higher Education by Jacob and Noam M. M. Neusner
Transaction · 2000 · 209 pages · $29.95 Reviewed by George C. Leef Father and son authors Jacob and Noam Neusner here devote their considerable experience (especially Neusner père, who has held many teaching positions in American and European universities) and writing talents to a book observing the condition of higher education in the United [...]
1Aug2001 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedBeer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education
Spokesmen for the higher education establishment can be counted on to do two things: first, to proclaim that America’s higher ed system is the best in the world, and second, to plead for more government funding. Fortunately, there are naysayers on both counts, and it is especially interesting to find the occasional education “insider” who [...]
1Dec2000 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedIn Plato’s Cave
In Plato’s Cave is a memoir—perhaps “reflection” is more in keeping with the title—of an Ivy Leaguer who has seen the elite of American universities in better times, and who has the skill to reveal this truth in the fullness of its tragic and its comedic phases. Kernan, now retired from the university duties of [...]
1May2000 | Jack Sommer | 1 comment | ContinuedFinancing College Tuition: Government Policies and Educational Priorities edited by Marvin H. Kosters
American Enterprise Institute • 1999 • 129 pages • $29.95 cloth; $14.95 paperback Higher education is a prodigious sacred cow in America. Consisting overwhelmingly of institutions that do not have to pass the test of the market and that subsist largely on funds that come directly or indirectly from government, our higher education system grows, [...]
1Mar2000 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedIndependent Schools at Risk
Jacob Huebert is a student at Grove City College and an intern at FEE. As discontentment with government schools grows, tax-funded “school choice” has emerged as the leading reform proposal. School-choice programs typically include a voucher plan, although some would make direct payments from the government to private schools. Those proposals are intended to give [...]
1Sep1999 | Jacob H. Huebert | 2 comments | ContinuedSubsidized Education
Russell Madden teaches at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It’s an annual ritual. With a sense of dread tinged with resignation, college students, or their parents, wait to discover how much this year’s tuition will rise. Unlike their experience with new computers, they entertain no expectation that rates for their education will decrease. [...]
1Sep1999 | Russell Madden | 23 comments | Continued-
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