On Apr 26, 2007, at 7:45 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
Also interesting that Swarthmore in PA made the list. It is a top
rated liberal arts college (so no question about the quality) but
it costs $43500 a year (tuition plus room/board) to attend. I
wonder how they define "value" when it appears that few other
expensive and high ranked liberal arts colleges made the list.
Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, MIT, etc. are on the list as
well. I believe they are using an obscure Anglo-Saxon meaning of
the term "value" which equates roughly to our modern "random". :-)
Chris
Well, I think, and have always thought, that there is something very
wrong with including the cost in evaluating of the quality of
education at a college. It is like judging the literary quality of ,
say, a novel by its price and/or the number of pages one gets for the
price, or judging the quality of a marriage by how lavish had been
the wedding party, or how much money the bride brought to the new
family.
I know, I know, I am old-fashioned, but I remain unrepentant..
Peter
Peter Harzem, B.Sc. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Wales)
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Auburn University
AL 36849-5214
USA
Phone: +334 844 6482
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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