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<blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 131265082" data-attributes="member: 1812660"><p>It's a fallacy since LBJ was president.&nbsp; Correlation does not equal causation.&nbsp; College graduates were better positioned in the job market and that was seen as because if the value of education.&nbsp; Then that morphed into everyone should go to college followed by everyone needed a degree.&nbsp; It is more likely that when getting into college and graduating was rare because it was rigorous, graduating meant you had something others didn't.&nbsp; You likely had work ethic, time management skills, some degree of acumen and deductive reasoning skills.&nbsp; Hence you had useful qualities even if the job at hand was not in your field of study.&nbsp; But it has morphed into a paper mill where students I went to school with 18 years ago were bitching and moaning that just attending 3 lectures a week was not enough for them to pass Calculus.&nbsp; Now everyone wonders why it's not the same despite the obvious answer being that when college was difficult enough that the more than half the population couldn't cut it, a degree distinguished you.&nbsp; Now people who likely couldn't have graduated High School half a century ago have a college degree with only have beer drinking along with whining about society's ills as discernable &quot;skills&quot;</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="The Bell Tolls for Thee, post: 131265082, member: 1812660"] It's a fallacy since LBJ was president. Correlation does not equal causation. College graduates were better positioned in the job market and that was seen as because if the value of education. Then that morphed into everyone should go to college followed by everyone needed a degree. It is more likely that when getting into college and graduating was rare because it was rigorous, graduating meant you had something others didn't. You likely had work ethic, time management skills, some degree of acumen and deductive reasoning skills. Hence you had useful qualities even if the job at hand was not in your field of study. But it has morphed into a paper mill where students I went to school with 18 years ago were bitching and moaning that just attending 3 lectures a week was not enough for them to pass Calculus. Now everyone wonders why it's not the same despite the obvious answer being that when college was difficult enough that the more than half the population couldn't cut it, a degree distinguished you. Now people who likely couldn't have graduated High School half a century ago have a college degree with only have beer drinking along with whining about society's ills as discernable "skills" [/QUOTE]

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