Thanks, Seth! I didn't get to my education article until this morning, so I missed officially entering the carnival.

AOW --

No link to an on-line education-based forum would have been complete without an Always On Watch submission attached.

Have a safe and fun holiday!

You, too, Patty. :-)

Geeez,
Did binar-99 say what I think he said?

BB --

The late Mr. Binar-99 was a spambot who has now been deleted. I get hit with lots of them, usually in the comment sections of older posts and most of those are usually blocked automatically, though some do get through.

I've been thinking about installing, if they're compatible with my publishing platform, one of those deals where a commenter has to type some displayed letters or numbers into a box before commenting -- spambots can't do this, so they don't get into the comments section.

A lot of interesting view of education there,
whew! That leftist rag Time Magazine recently
ran an article on whether kids should be trying
so hard to get into Ivy League colleges. My
experience has been that those graduates go to
Wall Street and Washington, DC. My more hands
on experience was a really great boss from M.I.T.
vs a total doofus from Dartmouth. Any thoughts
on how "good" these schools are?

Sheepskins from the big Ivy League U's are considered the best creds by the big firms and by government, but as in all things "elite", those who gain admittance are most often the offspring of "the elite". If you're a kid from a zillion dollar fortune, part of which is being bestowed upon the U in question, you can be as dumb as a box of rocks and get in, whereas if you're a genius from a laborer's family, good luck.

When you graduate from the Ivy League institution, even if you're still dumb as the old B of Rs, you'll go right to one of the top spots because of your alma mater and because of the family you come from. If you're the genius from less privileged circumstances, you'll simply have to work harder and smarter to attain what was given to the other kid right at the starting gate.

When it comes to status issues, our country's no different from all others -- since both political and private sector leadership come mostly from the priveleged class and it is human nature to surround onesself with ones "own kind", kids from said privileged class will always have the big edge.

Also, in the private sector, shareholders tend to feel more comfortable while reading a profile of a new executive Veep, CEO or director if they see that the person attended, say, Princeton rather than Rancho Cucamonga Community College.

Seth,
Your observation "shareholders tend to feel more comfortable while reading a profile of a new executive Veep, CEO or director if they see that the person attended, say, Princeton" enlightened
me. Here I was focusing on their compensation
package!!

BB --

Of course compensation packages are bigger, because again, the credential value of an Ivy League school is seen as a strong asset by large institutions and most gov't agencies.

One reason a lot of big corporations run into Chapter 11 situations and gov't bureaucracies are so screwed up -- they hire the alma mater, not the individual.

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