Being Virtually Educated
If an education is priceless, then a higher education must truly be priceless. There was a time, not that long ago, when people would joke about a person seeming to have earned their advanced degree by way of mail-order. The history of that carcinogen traced its roots back to the pulp fiction that protected sticks of sulfur from the elements. However that particular fix is no longer being sold merely in jest; being virtually educated has taken on a whole new layer of philo pastry. The proverbial can of worms is, as you read this, being replaced by an even more virtuous can of spam. In just a few short laps around the sun the number of people who will aluminize Virtual U will surpass the all of the past bricks and mortar graduates combined. The question is not whether this is good or bad it's already happening, the question is one of cost: priceless or priceless.
It used to be that irrespective of the subject matter you could roughly compare the quantitative standards of an education. For example, a full-time two year MBA was the most general form of an advanced business degree. However a business education is being slowly but surely being taken over by the business of education. The current generation of decision makers, boomers, have been raised with a certain set of cast-in-stone acronyms that act as cipher key signals while their upstart prodigy see acronyms as nothing more than yesterdays software protocols. Add to that an evolving industry that recruits human capital by way of spiders and keyword search engines, and you have all the makings for an educational disconnect: one generations apples & oranges becomes another generations fruit salad. In the meantime, right here, right now, everyone is being told to eat fruit cake.
Make no mistake, use it or lose it, exercise is good for you. Mind or body, they both tend to show up together no matter where you draw the lines of your philosophy. But when it comes to the dumbing down or up-selling higher education, keep in mind that you are both the supply and demand. Caveat emptor. Or maybe the tortoise has finally passed Achilles once and for all. In any respect, I'm betting on the winner. Hey buddy, got a light?
It used to be that irrespective of the subject matter you could roughly compare the quantitative standards of an education. For example, a full-time two year MBA was the most general form of an advanced business degree. However a business education is being slowly but surely being taken over by the business of education. The current generation of decision makers, boomers, have been raised with a certain set of cast-in-stone acronyms that act as cipher key signals while their upstart prodigy see acronyms as nothing more than yesterdays software protocols. Add to that an evolving industry that recruits human capital by way of spiders and keyword search engines, and you have all the makings for an educational disconnect: one generations apples & oranges becomes another generations fruit salad. In the meantime, right here, right now, everyone is being told to eat fruit cake.
Make no mistake, use it or lose it, exercise is good for you. Mind or body, they both tend to show up together no matter where you draw the lines of your philosophy. But when it comes to the dumbing down or up-selling higher education, keep in mind that you are both the supply and demand. Caveat emptor. Or maybe the tortoise has finally passed Achilles once and for all. In any respect, I'm betting on the winner. Hey buddy, got a light?
