Tag: Education
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Galt’s Gulch, Higher Education, and the Blockchain
Will the credential of a university degree be valuable in 15 years?
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The Death of Graduate School?
Is Congress to blame for the “death of graduate school” or is it universities’ failure to heed price signals? Read →
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David Bromwich and the Vanishing Art of Independent Thinking
The intelligence is defeated as soon as the expression of one’s thoughts is preceded, explicitly or implicitly, by the little word “we.”1 Recently, in The London Review of Books, David Bromwich penned an excoriating piece on Barack Obama and the political class that had me chuckling in my chair (see “The World’s Most Important Spectator”). The writing…
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“H = MC. Humanities Equals More Cash”
Speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, David Rubenstein reportedly criticized policy initiatives that push students to orient themselves toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The real scarcity, he apparently asserted, is in problem solving and critical thinking skills—both of which may be gleaned from the study of humanities,…
Mike Casey 