Marty Nemko: "America's Most Overrated Product: Higher Education" (Part 1 of 7)

Dr. Nemko, who holds a Ph.D.from Berkeley specializing in the evaluation of education and subsequently taught in Berkeley's graduate school, believes that higher education, especially at prestigious universities--provides bad value for the time and money, in learning growth, personal growth, and in employment. He discusses how higher education should be reinvented so it lives up to the deceptive promises in colleges' promotional materials and more importantly, lives up to the unquestioned cliché that American higher education is a national treasure. He also offers practical advice on how to make the most of Berkeley, plus career and entrepreneurial ideas for reinventing higher education.

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• Marty Nemko
• Students for Liberty
• Berkeley
• higher education

[DrZarkloff]

I have a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Florida International University. I'm 57 and I've yet to use my degree.

[radweed2009]

Education, like housing and medical care, has been massively inflationary over the past several decades; if folks thought about this, they'd realize that inflation has in fact been skyrocketing for decades now, though we've been told that's barely been there at all.

[dutytocareforothers]

Actually, public universities are putrid. This isn't just Marty's opinion. Chris Hedges and Marc Scheer have explored this topic in detail.

[rustyohrocket]

Marty is mad because he couldn't make it as an academic despite a doctorate from one of the great universities. Too bad.

[Hashishin13]

descriptions would be nice.