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Subject:Re: What is the value of Tech Comm Masters? From:Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:18:18 -0400
Coming in late on this thread, but I have to side with Goober.
I heard about a study (sorry, keep your groin covered) a few months ago
that looked at the lifetime earnings (to date) of a cohort of students
who had been accepted by Harvard. The authors compared the results for
individuals who chose to attend Harvard with the results for people who
decided to go to "lesser" schools, and I think they also looked at
people who dropped out or decided not to attend at all, although I may
be misremembering that part. There was no statistical difference.
What they concluded was that lifetime earnings are strongly influenced
by the qualities that get you into college but not influenced in any
important way by where you go or whether you get a degree. In other
words, how bright you are rather than whom you know.
I'll also pick Dan's side over John's. The purpose of getting an
education is to become an educated person--a goal some of us think
important and others consider effete. If you want to learn a trade,
fine; but that's an unrelated pursuit. (John's position strikes me as
the essence of Philistinism, but the world needs Philistines, too. <g>)
Getting any particular degree doesn't indicate, these days, whether you
went to school to become educated or to learn a trade, however; so the
letters after one's name remain irrelevant in my opinion.
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