The rush for science etc. degrees from Unis is also creating an underclass of highly qualified unemployed. They aren't at all satisfied with the lower end job opportunities. Not so many manual workers left as they are on small incomes when their overseas competitors are on a dollar a day.
Do you mean like these incompetent slackers chosen randomly from some of America's worst schools, college's and universities. If these assholes make so much as a dime they are making too much! http://www.juilliard.edu/faculty/jeff-edwards http://www.du.edu/korbel/docs/fac_schneider_cv2012.pdf https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...5LmVkdXxhZGVja2VydHxneDo1YzU3YzViOTVkMTEyNGJk http://www.gdcb.iastate.edu/faculty_and_research/bios/jessner.shtml http://www.mriedel.ece.umn.edu/wiki/images/3/3f/Marc_Riedel_CV.pdf https://www.usm.edu/english/faculty/steven-barthelme http://www.cm.utexas.edu/allen_bard http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/barbararossi/ Of course, I could have just looked for a few competent faculty at only schools like Harvard, but that would not be representative of the sorry state of U.S. academia. Why don't these folks go out and get a real job? Because they can't do anything but teach, obviously. P.S.: How does it feel, Grandluxe, to be an asshole?
Professor of painting? F me. If any of my kids waste money studying shyte like this I'm going to beat some sense into his/her head. College education is out of control partly because the stoopid govt gives loans to every idot who wants to study useless shyte like history of painting. There are more un-qualified idots teaching at the elementary and high school levels, these turds and their unionized retirement benefits are sending property taxes to unsustainable levels. Let's not forget the bloated administrative staffs.
Im sure nobody here wants to hear my thoughts on the subject. I will say just one thing. The level of academia here in the US is just horrible. I'm sitting in school right now, but I would be the first one to say that 95% of the people sitting in the class room do not deserve a college credit for the work we do....Myself included. The reason I am here, I failed out of school in France, but I have a US passport and family living here in the States. So I decided to come here and take advantage of some kind of grant that my family told me about. Now that I am in class here, its a joke....these teachers give us the answers before the test!, In france I was in class for close to 6 hours, and then 4 hours a day of studying....and still failed out, here...im studying less then half of that and still making As. then the cost is an entirely different issue that I won't get into right now.
Your observations are accurate, I believe, with regard to what is true in general. And the situation is likely to get worse, as colleges and universities become increasingly more subject to political pressures, and wealthy, fried chicken franchise owners exercise more and more influence over college board decisions. ("wealthy, fried chicken franchise owners" is metonymous here. I have nothing against fried chicken.) In the American psyche, knowing how to work the deep fryer at KFC is more important than reading Beowulf.