The Decline in Education

In a USA Today report a study found some shocking data about the level of education in higher education.

"Nearly half of the nation's undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don't make academics a priority....After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change. Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago, the research shows."- USA Today

If you been to a college campus these days you sadly can see how this is very true. Education in general is being push to produced more higher education graduates. Like most government related products lowing standards are a lot easier then increase the difficulty. For when you lower the bar everyone a winner right?

Facts like this are not all that uncommon, studies have shown that students entering the workforce after college are increasingly unprofessional and unprepared for the tasks at hand.  People are not raised with the idea that they are responsible for their work, and that the quality and timeliness of there work does effect the outcome. People expect their teachers to hold their hands through college, then have their bosses hold their hands through the work world. Whatever happened to individual independence, and motivation to succeed? I guess holding people accountable and forcing people to think instead of just repeating information is now un-America.

Like most things in life time has a habit of fixing our own mistakes. With more students at college graduating to find that jobs are fewer and far an between people will start waking to reality. If not there is always government jobs available