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GREAT AMERICA
The Black Mark of a Bachelor’s
Degree
The dream is that someday employers will say, “Let's hire
anybody but a college graduate.
By Anthony Esolen
I
September 12, 2021
have a dream.
It is prompted by this story, out of Portland State, of a professor
who is leaving the academy a er enduring one vicious and disgusting
attack a er another: swastikas (and feces) on his o ce door, lectures
disrupted, slanderous attacks on his family life, institutional denial of
the most basic rights of the accused—indeed, hatred from the very
people who should be rewarding him for his courage. He is no
conservative. He seems to have no notion of truth outside of the realm of
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strict rationalism. He and I would disagree about many things. But he
has a mind, and he uses it, and therefore he is dangerous.
Before I say what my dream is, I would like to say a few things about
what has become the second greatest swindle in the nation, second only
to the swindle that is its big brother and enabler, government at the
federal and the state level. Of course I am talking about higher
education.
I do not mean to implicate all colleges as participants in the swindle. At
some few colleges here and there, students actually learn things. Here at
Magdalen College in New Hampshire, for example. I would be proud to
place the syllabus for our four-year team-taught Humanities course
against the sum total of what most doctoral students in one or another of
the humanities have learned—or have even taken a glance at. But we
have set our faces like int against foolishness and irresponsibility and
cultural amnesia. And we have a grand time, too, reading and talking
about what we have read, contemplating truth and sharing with others
some glimpse of what we have seen.
But if you look at colleges generally, what do you get? Outside of those
few departments like the applied sciences, where practical results
condemn failure to the garbage can, or mathematics, where proof is
proof and wishing doesnʼt make it so, higher education is not education
at all. It is a racket. I mean the word in its strict sense. The colleges have
positioned themselves as the owners of the only bridge across an
impassable river. If you want a good job, they say, you have to go through
us, and we, with government enablers and enforcers, will make you
mortgage yourself over the gables for the privilege.
Employers hire college graduates for four reasons, as I see it. Least
commonly, it is for something that the new hire will have learned there.
The second reason is for intelligence—sort of. For college is a low-level
but more or less reliable intelligence exam. If you are a genius
(especially if you are male), you may fail the exam; likewise, but with less
assurance, if you are a complete dunce. The college rewards a kind of
tepid to warm verbal facility, and a self-satis ed inability to discern the
di erence between a political slogan and a potent enunciation of
permanent truth; the colleges graduate people by the millions who think
they are thinking, when their “thoughts” are more predictable by far
than those of truck drivers stopping at a diner and talking about politics
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or sports or money or family life. In this sense, the vast majority of
students have their degrees not from Ohio State or Georgetown, but from
Stepford University (Ohio State campus) and Stepford University
(Georgetown campus). And employers like the ball bearings they buy
from Stepford.
The third reason is closely related to the second. The colleges function as
personality lters. Fancy a Beethoven, a Michelangelo, a Melville, or a
Pascal at Stepford University! Well, you need not try to imagine it,
because those among us who might have been Beethoven, Michelangelo,
Melville, or Pascal have long been sti ed by the schools and by the timewasting and life-draining force of mass media. Such lads donʼt usually
make it to Stepford in the rst place. But if you are at Stepford, you will
be rewarded for conformity.
I imagine an introductory course, Weather-Vane 101, wherein students
stand with their arms extended, and are taught to swing with the
prevailing political wind (as determined by their betters, naturally).
People like that will t quite nicely in the great folds of managerial fat
that we nd in both the public and the private sphere. The wonder of it,
too, is that the weather vanes will at the same time boast of themselves
as leaders: as the rooster who thinks that his crowing makes the sun rise.
It is fortunate for us that we have so little sense of the ridiculous.
Otherwise our economy might collapse overnight, and our governors
might leave their stations, near to cardiac arrest with laughter,
sputtering, “Well of course we donʼt know what weʼre doing! What did
you think?”
The fourth reason is that employers cannot a ord to hire whomever they
please, for whatever reason they please. Big Sis is watching. So they have
out-sourced their hiring decisions. They use the colleges as credentialing
services, and since the colleges are the creatures of government, who
then can blame them?
Now then, my dream.
I dream that someday soon, people will notice that the colleges have
become less than worthless; that by a half-diligent application the
graduate leaves the college stupider than nature ever intended any
grown person to be, not only failing to see the truth, but upholding
absurdities and follies with a fervor to make Torquemada look like
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Milquetoast; that the colleges train young people in egotism and
hedonism; that graduates will be intolerant, vindictive, and eager to
seize upon any excuse to condemn you for not swinging the right
direction in the wind; that these graces of person and character will not
be tempered by any useful knowledge or insights into the human
condition; that their writing will be worse a er four years than it was
when they were freshmen, more clotted with jargon and slogans; that
they will be less likely to read with close attention, because their
professors will have taught them the habit of easy labeling; that they will
be less capable of wonder, slouching in soul as in body.
My dream is that someday employers will say, “Letʼs hire anybody but a
college graduate. Weʼll teach him what he needs to know for our work.
Check out the homeschoolers—they are a really sociable lot.” Imagine
getting a fresh and intelligent young worker at age 18, rather than a
stulti ed parrot at age 22.
That strange groan you hear, dear readers, is the straining of the dike.
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About Anthony Esolen
Anthony Esolen is a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for
American Greatness and a professor and writer in residence at
Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, in Warner, New Hampshire.
Dr. Esolen is a senior editor for Touchstone Magazine and a
contributing editor for Chronicles. He is a regular contributor to
Crisis Magazine and the author of many
books, including The
Search
Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery Press,
2008); Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Books,
2010) and Re ections on the Christian Life (Sophia Institute Press,
2013). His most recent books are Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching
(Sophia Institute Press, 2014); Defending Marriage (Tan Books, 2014);
Life Under Compulsion (ISI Books, 2015); Real Music: A Guide to the
Timeless Hymns of the Church (Tan Books, 2016); Out of the Ashes
(Regnery, 2017); Nostalgia (Regnery, 2018); and Sex and the Unreal
City (Ignatius, 2020).
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Still Joan • a day ago
I can tell you that already happened to my daughter. She worked for a metal forge
which made product for aircraft and NASA. She walked in as a $10/hr temp worker,
finished early every day, walked around and asked if there was something she
could help anyone with. They saw her value, trained her in quality control and
within a year sent her to take the Quality Tests for Pratt-Whitney which she passed
on the first go-round. Her pay doubled.
Next year they hired a woman fresh out of graduate school for their newly devised
Mentoring program. They paid her expenses to move including trailering her car.
She lasted less than 8 weeks, a complete disaster.
Most of the college graduates of the generation of my children are not working at
jobs requiring a degree.
With the destruction of the confidence in the military and health sectors of our
country, there is no institution that inspires trust or confidence.
It has all crashed and burned.
I have more stories like my daughter; my nieces and nephews have followed a
similar trajectory.
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Yamazaki Mei ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ > Still Joan • a day ago
I have some friends who have a son and as is typical he got a part time job
working at a fast food joint during high school. When he got near graduation
the suits at corporate got in touch with him; said they'd been watching him
and were impressed. The kid landed a job as basically a fixer where he'd
get sent out on teams to assist in opening up new franchises, helping
existing ones that were having problems and training on new policies and
procedures. He makes decent $, has a nice benefits package and gets to
travel around the country. Not a bad deal if you can pull it off!
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Teacher_in_Tejas > Yamazaki Mei ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ • 3 hours ago
One of my nieces drifted through three years of college before Mom
and Dad shut the checkbook until she got a focus on things. Started
working retail in Macy's shoe department, liked it, became assistant
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manager, soon department head and eventually store manager for
another company. Now works in higher management, but the one
caveat is she is seeing a ceiling on her earnings without that overpriced piece of paper in her portfolio.
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Phloda > Teacher_in_Tejas • 2 hours ago
And that ceiling my friend is CRAP. My son-in-law is the
hardest working man in any group and finally has a pretty
decent gig managing a hundred staff over a six state area.
And he still knows his spreadsheets and the more esoteric
side of the business. But he's peaked out because he didn't
get the degree. CRAP I say.
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Still Joan > Yamazaki Mei ✓ᴰᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ • 20 hours ago
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Igor the Obscure > Still Joan • 2 hours ago
My children have taken a diverse path - 5 of our 7 pursued the academic
path and too many took on (IMHO) crushing debt. One of the other two is
working at FedEx, managing package handlers.
The other took the military route - joined the guard at 17 and planned to go
to university after his training. Well, Afghanistan intervened and afterwards
one thing or another conspired to keep him from going to university. He is
by far the most successful of our children - full time in the Guard and the
youngest Warrant Officer 3 in the state. He's married with two children owns his house, etc.
I'll never encourage someone to go to university - unless it's a technical
degree. Even then, I wish they would streamline the degree requirements.
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Harry Cabeza • a day ago
While I don't disagree with Dr Esolen, I must point out that the dumbing down of
our children is beginning at a much earlier age in public schools. I sent my son and
daughter to private Christian-oriented schools and both independently noticed in
their 1st years of college how ill-prepared public-schooled kids were at basic
academic skills, such as writing and math. Unfortunately, in college, they both
learned fairly quickly that they had to keep quiet about their conservative social &
political values so as not to jeopardize their grade-point averages.
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John in Indy • a day ago
The lead case, and source of this monstrosity is Griggs v Duke Power, US 1971.
This case was the first to use disparate outcomes (disparate impact) against preemployment aptitude testing, because too many blacks failed to show the aptitude
for the jobs Duke was hiring for.
Shortly thereafter, a college degree became the substitute for aptitude and work
history, regardless of the relationship of the degree to the job.
X 50 years, and you get Cal State College, Berzerkly, and the like.
John in Indy
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lapsus calami > John in Indy • 20 hours ago
Powell's unsupported opinion in Regents v. Bakke did a lot of damage in
that area as well.
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Francis E Reidy • a day ago
I went to community College. Majored in smoking pot, drinking beer and chasing
girls. My professor said he didn't like me. So I drank more beer, smoked more pot
and chased girls. My counselor said I was a looser. So I drank, smoked, and
mostly tried to screw.
I left college because I was a looser and didn't fit into the college norm.
So I got a job, I got married, We had two children.
I realized I wasn't a looser but I was somewhat Nonconforming. I went to trade
school at night, l became an Air Conditioning Mechanic, then Journeyman, then
Master. I opened and ran a thriving and successful HVAC company.
I worked in and around the Washington DC.area.
I loved my trade. I loved working for people and fixing problems.
I've worked on the large corporate and big government jobs and associated
with the conforming types all my life.
They don't Crap without permission.
Ask a government employee a question and expect them to start shaking and wait
2 weeks.
Anyway I sold the company, retired and read VDH all the time.
I'm living proof any Nonconforming
so called looser can succeed in this country even when U Ain't Good Enough.
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Tony_Petroski > Francis E Reidy • a day ago
Have you ever heard the John Lennon song "I'm a Looser"?
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Wallace > Francis E Reidy • a day ago
Congratulations. But you know you're the exception. Education matters and
you know it.
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Francis E Reidy > Wallace • a day ago
Depends on the education.
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lapsus calami > Wallace • 20 hours ago
Define "education."
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Wallace > lapsus calami • 16 hours ago
Look it up yourself.
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ProfDPM > Wallace • 2 hours ago
Education, meaning attaining knowledge and the wisdom to
apply it is important. "Education" meaning "credentialed" is
not.
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Wallace > ProfDPM • an hour ago • edited
Both are important - and you gain gain both how/wherever
your path takes you - BUT a college education will lead to
higher income and greater job stability - in the long run.
That's a fact but does not mean one is "better educated" with
a degree.
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joeythelemur > Wallace • an hour ago
What makes you think he doesn't have an education?? This man
has the BEST education possible.
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Kirk McDonald • a day ago
Mr. Esolen, I hear you, and I hope soon that millions of my fellow Americans hear
you.
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I wanted to be a lawyer when I was a young man. The cost was not in my budget,
so I became a industry mechanic and electrician.
To quench my thirst for history I started to go to every old bookstore in every town I
traveled to. I found the wonderful works of Sir Winston Churchill, and learned what
a wonderful wordsmith is. I have a saying my children tease me about, so many
books, so little time.
Read my friends, and you will learn about mans many failures, but you might also
learn not to make the same mistakes.
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Tony_Petroski > Kirk McDonald • a day ago
"Read my friends, and you will learn about man's many failures..."
It's a great practice. I taught myself to be a conservative by reading books
and magazines in the library at the University of Minnesota between
indoctrination classes.
Actually, the indoctrination back then was real but it was subtle, like the
student-supported paper reinforcing leftism daily, even in stories about
sports.
I always wondered why the leftists, certainly they were running the library,
allowed conservative material to be put on the shelves. It wasn't because
they were open-minded and wanted to promote free speech. I assume it
was just the usual slackness typical of leftists.
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John (the other John) > Tony_Petroski • 19 hours ago
Stunning how the descendants from the land of Valhalla transformed
into the land where men have va-inas. I used to like MN.
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lapsus calami > Tony_Petroski • 20 hours ago
They were probably too lazy to pay attention.
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Kirk McDonald > Tony_Petroski • a day ago
Mr. Petroski, I knew you were an educated man. I mean that in the
best sense of the word.
I would have loved to go to the U, or NDSU.
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Larry J > Kirk McDonald • an hour ago
"Read my friends, and you will learn about mans many failures, but you
might also learn not to make the same mistakes."
There's a saying (source unknown) that I love. "Any damned fool can learn
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from his own mistakes. Wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others."
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American Patriot • a day ago
If asked I'd advise anyone about to graduate high school to go to a trade school or
learn the job to become a carpenter, electrician, plumber, mason etc. They can
make a good living and possibly at some point own their own business. They'll
learn the practical wisdom of the real world and be spared the idiocy of a university
education.
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Robert Gross > American Patriot • a day ago • edited
"The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a
humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an
exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." John W. Gardner,
President of the Carnegie Corporation and Secretary of Health, Education,
and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson.
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m a > Robert Gross • a day ago
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”― Thucydides
Don't think he contemplated a time when 'scholars' would be fools.
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Wallace > American Patriot • a day ago
Right, banging nails is the way to go. Why bother getting an education and
increase your knowledge when you can just spend the rest of your life
banging nails? And when a recession comes along and you're unemployed
with no future except banging nails because that's all it says you know how
to do on your three sentence resume, what's your plan gonna be?
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Kirk McDonald > Wallace • a day ago
Wow you are an arrogant azzhole. Have you ever built a house?
How about wire a house?
Keeping up with code changes by morons with 4 year degrees that
have never done a damed thing in their life, except go to school and
sit at a desk.
I have done the hiring and firing for a big company. I'll take a worker
with experience over the "college education" 99 times out of 100.
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lapsus calami > Kirk McDonald • 20 hours ago
It's a troll. Please don't feed it.
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Kirk McDonald > lapsus calami • 17 hours ago
I absolutely loathe arrogant people. Leftists are the most
arrogant people in the world.
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Wallace > Kirk McDonald • 21 hours ago
Classic dumbass response. One has nothing to do with the
other. Education is the great equalizer. Even the uneducated
realize that. Classic Trump Fox News talking point. You have
a problem with educated people? You know, like scientist
making vaccines to save your dumb azz from dying. BTW,
are you vaccinated?
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Kirk McDonald > Wallace • 17 hours ago • edited
No Wallace I don't have an issue with a classic liberal
education. I wanted to be a lawyer, but chose not to go that
deep in debt. At the time about 40 thousand. What I loathe
are little leftist like you.
It has everything to do with my response to you.
"Right, banging nails is the way to go. Why bother getting an
education and increase your knowledge when you can just
spend the rest of your life banging nails? And when a
recession comes along and you're unemployed with no future
except banging nails because that's all it says you know how
to do on your three sentence resume, what's your plan gonna
be?"
That was the post of an arrogant azzhole.
You have never worked hard a day in your life. The only
calluses you ever got on your hand was from stroking your
selfrightous ego.
Edit, I do not watch TV news of any kind and haven't for over
20 years. Go take your Trump hatred somewhere else. Not
every constitutionalist is a trump supporter.
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Wallace > Kirk McDonald • 16 hours ago
" but chose not to go that deep in debt. At the time about 40
thousand. "
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Well if you did invest 40K at the time you would most likely
be making 5X what you're making now. Bad decision.
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Kirk McDonald > Wallace • 16 hours ago
You are blocked.
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Jmlsmb > Wallace • a day ago
If the economy tanks, people are still going to need the trades, no
matter what. Degrees in any of the social sciences? Not so much.
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Wallace > Jmlsmb • 16 hours ago
You better think that response through jmlsmb.
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Jmlsmb > Wallace • 14 hours ago
Ok. I have. I'm right, and you know it.
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Wallace > Jmlsmb • 12 hours ago
"If the economy tanks, people are still going to need the
trades"
No, builders stop building and homeowners don't spend $$
add bedrooms or upgrade kitchens if "the economy tanks."
"Degrees in any of the social sciences? Not so much."
Social science degrees are always in demand no matter the
health of the economy. Think nurses, therapists, social
workers.
Do you get it now?
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Jmlsmb > Wallace • 12 hours ago
Nurses and physical therapists are STEM degrees, not social
science. Plumbers, welders, electricians, carpenters,
mechanics and people who know how to build, maintain, and
fix things will always be in demand, especially if the economy
tanks. Do you think there is nothing besides building new
construction?
The first jobs to go will be social workers, diversity officers,
and other social degrees, which are not really science but it
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makes it sound better.
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Wallace > Jmlsmb • 11 hours ago
New home building is the life blood for most trades people.
Home improvements project work also suffers when the
economy tanks. They're the 1st jobs to go. There's more
economic stability in health care related fields. I'm not
diminishing trades skills but college degree skills offer more
economic stability and higher income over the course of a
career. That's a given.
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Jmlsmb > Wallace • 11 hours ago
There's a difference in health care, as in medical degrees,
and social "science". They are not the same thing. Social
degrees, especially a bachelors, is just liberal arts. And yes,
psychology is a liberal arts course.
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joeythelemur > Wallace • an hour ago
You sure like to sneer and look down your nose at the trades, don't
you? Tell me, for wherever you live, did you "bang all the nails"
yourself? And if not, did you happen to talk to those presumed
dimwits who were banging those nails on your behalf?
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Teacher_in_Tejas > Wallace • 3 hours ago
Back in 2012 Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" fame posted an essay in
which he described an email from a guy in Minnesota who ran a
small manufacturing firm. He said that he had a skilled machinist's
job which paid $75,000/year with benefits, and he couldn't fill it, yet
every day two girls with MAs in English served him coffee at
Starbucks.
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Wallace > Teacher_in_Tejas • 2 hours ago
So what does that even mean? And you're a teacher? I doubt
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