On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:37:38 -0700
> Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Limiting to only those who can pay won't work for universities.  They
> need
> > > to fill the seats
>
> > economists call this "price discrimination," and say that it's more
> > efficient. I have my doubts.
>
> Efficient in what sense? The boffins of the Credentialling Sector
> think it works for them. Who are we to tell them how to run their
> business?
>
> Colleges and jails still seem to be big growth industries. Everybody
> apparently thinks they're really important.
>


i'm pretty glad i got to go to college. and grad school. less excited about
the thought of prison, but maybe there's something about prison i don't
understand? or maybe i just need the right one.

also not so sure colleges are growth, right now. many seem very much on the
verge of demise. i would not be at all surprised to see whole swatch of
small liberal arts colleges, and probably a bunch of comprehensives
competing for the same nursing and ed students, go under over the next
couple of years.
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