‘Higher’ education is no better than ‘vocational’ education: House education leader

[rangerrebew]

 â€˜Higher’ education is no better than ‘vocational’ education: House education leader
January 3, 2019
 
Rep. Virginia Foxx lost her chairmanship of the House Education and the Workforce Committee when Democrats took over the chamber Thursday, and she left with a parting shot at the college-industrial complex.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, the North Carolina Republican and former college president (below) writes that the language we use to distinguish forms of education from each other reflects class prejudice.

If academics really care about making language more “inclusive,” they need to stop stigmatizing non-four-year-college education as “vocational” and “technical,” Foxx writes, citing a professor who once told her class that “training” was for animals:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/higher-education-is-no-better-than-vocational-education-house-education-leader/

[Absalom]

Higher education is a synonym for horse manure.
The Greeks and Romans created western civilization
w/o credentials (degrees)!!!

[Smokin Joe]

Actually, an awful lot of academics look askance at a mere Bachelor's Degree....

If you don't have a PhD, they don't consider you part of the club.

So, yeah, I can see where they view a mere 4-year degree as no better than a tradesman.

The sad part is they are often the ones who have taught those Baccalaureate students who often would have been better off financially had they gone to trade school.