Is it the degree, or the ability to think, that's most important? The issue is not how many college graduates we produce, it's what they major in.(RETROGRADE)

From: Expansion Management | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: King, Bill | Copyright information

ONE OF THE MOST TOTALLY IRRELEVANT DEBATES AMONG educators revolves around the question of what percentage of jobs in America require a college education.

Over the years, I've sat through dozens of seminars in which people put the number at anywhere from 20 percent to 40 percent. While most tend to cite these numbers with absolute certainty, they're invariably vague as to the source of that particular statistic.

How they feel about it usually depends upon wher...

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