Writing, Math and Brain Drain

The Elite needs to know they are communicating with other elitists. Dr. John Crawford, of Fort Wayne, Indiana suffers from brain drain. When in fact, Paul Gottieb states that their is an under utilization of young college educated students. Matter of fact, someone shared with me a story about a former student, who graduated from high school one day, and the next day graduated with a degree from College. The student was a child of one of the elites in the community. Assigning special privileges to some in higher education insures the success of their children. But privilege does not guarantee the same child continue growth when surrounded by nepotism and cronyism.

This is what Dr. Crawford witnesses on a daily basis exclusiveness, that involves colleagues who are dumb as a rock. It is his job to know more than his patients. But because they can afford his service, they are allowed in his circle. And his political world places him amongst those who practice nepotism and cronyism who would not be able to enter his circle of privilege. These individuals do not require real knowledge just a connection to Dr. Crawford or others who knows someone who is a friend of a friend..and the list goes on. And to sometimes fake titles like professor, Doctor of such and such institution help support the embellishment of entitlement of these individuals being as important and professional as Dr. Crawford. We just wish you would stop pretending these are our brightest and smartest, when it is what it is. Nepotism and cronyism and not governing by competent people.

This is networking. These folks interact with each other. Those who have real degrees never get a chance to contribute to the discussion. This is exclusive privilege at work. Just 4 the record posted a story about how privilege protects those who are not documented, by telling others they must have a college education. While privilege allow the slackers to learn on the job without that expensive college degree.

The pundits keep chanting that we need a more highly skilled workforce, by which they mean more college graduates, although the connection between college and skills is not always crystal clear. Jones, for example, was performing a complex job requiring considerable judgment, experience and sensitivity without the benefit of any college degree. And how about all those business majors -- business being the most popular undergraduate major in America? It seems to me that a two-year course in math and writing skills should be more than sufficient to prepare someone for a career in banking, marketing, or management. Most of what you need to know you're going to learn on the job anyway.

From the story, it appears that the Jones in the story, was the dean of admission at MIT, stated she had three degrees and had none. Jones was performing this job for 28 years without a degree. But the moment it was discovered Jones was canned. Are the student's parents reimbursed part of their tuition because Jones lied about her credential. I doubt it.