Its Simply Red Herring
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The main article of this book is that higher education, generally, has become in many ways and for many people, a kind of very expensive extended playpen, a place to stash young people who society deems not ready for the workforce but too unmanageable to keep at home. According to Bird, college is ....
Middle of paper
.... for those jobs. Bird makes no pretense at objectivity, and argues that we should not attend college for the sake of an elite job.
Bird offers the reason of going to college could land a satisfying career through attaining a degree. Odds are this is not a good idea. According to Bird, Liberal-Arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. Bird states that colleges fail to warn students that high paying jobs are hard to come by, and they ....
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Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
