The College Diploma Fraud

For more than a half-century, government has tried to close racial gaps in educational attainment. Sad to say, those gaps have proven intractable. Nevertheless, the impulse remains as heartfelt as ever (perhaps due to its financially lucrative character), but the emphasis is now shifting from actual learning to equality of graduation rates. President Obama has spoken of adding 5 million graduates to the workforce by 2020, and credential-mania is now all the rage. This shift is a disaster in the making; imparting knowledge is commendable, but just handing out diplomas...

Vladimir_Scratchanitch wrote:[Prog off] (where is that icon?)

As far as I am concerned, social work and psych degrees are credentials for utter idiots and communists. (It is well-known that social work and psych students are the stupidest kids on campus)


See my old, OLD essay The Alphabet of Corruption

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Comte asserted that even the so-called soft sciences, such as sociology, bear out this pattern of development. Through the eyes of Clothilde he came to see sociology—particularly his own brand—not only as a hard science but as a tool for bettering the world. He surmised that social problems could be engineered away by big, positive policies.

After the death of his beloved Clothilde, however, Comte began acting in decidedly nonscientific ways. He became inextricably involved with mysticism and embarked on a self-prescribed course of “cerebral hygiene,” wherein he would not allow himself to be contaminated by the inferior ideas expressed by other lecturers and authors.

In 1849 Comte applied his hand to calendar reform, suggesting a 13-month year, each day of which was dedicated to someone he considered a champion of humanity. At around the same time he founded the Positivist Society, still in existence today. He came to believe that the ultimate goal of humanity was to learn to worship itself. To that end he established the universal religion of humanity and declared himself its high priest.

His positivist theory developed into a program for the future of humankind: he reasoned that feckless leaders imposing rules had ensured that the past was strewn with war, but that right thinking, as he defined it, would ultimately sweep away such conflict. Yet, in spite of Comte's devoted efforts, humanity seems no nearer the exalted goal of perfection.

Even though today most sociologists shudder at Comte's totalitarian version of positivism, his influence is still great. Countless social improvement measures bear testimony to his principle, and many people inadvertently fall into the trap of thinking that humanity can better itself morally through willpower alone.

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