Originally Posted by Val
And as for prestige as a route to the right credentials, what happened to learning how to think and pondering important ideas? Technology is great, but when we don't give ourselves space to think about what we're doing, we're at risk for making bad decisions and getting ourselves into trouble (Wall St; the mortgage debacle; etc.)

Education won't help with willful fraud and massive credit bubbles.

The solution to problems like that have more to do with being honest and not creating massive amounts of credit that shouldn't exist.

Apparently some schools provide magic tickets that enable you to have Careers Worth Having these days.

It's not about education. It's about branding. And it's less than helpful to everybody.