I got the book from Netgalley; someone must be reprinting it. And, well, I'm a sucker for Cheaper by the Dozen type stories.
It occurs to me that we've been in a sort of educational arms race for the last century: it used to be that a high school education was enough to set a job-seeker apart, but as that became common (from the best of democratic motives), college became the new dividing line. I suspect that if Bernie Sanders' free college plans came to fruition, college would then be nothing but the new high school, and people looking to stand out would get graduate degrees. It's already starting to happen.
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Date: 2017-05-13 09:05 pm (UTC)It occurs to me that we've been in a sort of educational arms race for the last century: it used to be that a high school education was enough to set a job-seeker apart, but as that became common (from the best of democratic motives), college became the new dividing line. I suspect that if Bernie Sanders' free college plans came to fruition, college would then be nothing but the new high school, and people looking to stand out would get graduate degrees. It's already starting to happen.