Dale Archer Quotes
Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
Archer, Dale. "Why College Is Not For Everyone." Forbes, Forbes Media, 2012.
profit making schools of higher education The latter years of the 20th century saw a large increase in the number of proprietary, profit making colleges and other institutions of higher education. These were able to utilize the Federal student loan programs. However, many were fraudulent rip-offs. Most were unaccredited. The average proprietary school obtained more federal student loan money per student than non-profit schools {639817}, and did not train their students as well. A smaller percentage of their students get their degrees and find jobs. When they do obtain employment they make less money. Congressional pressure, induced by heavy lobbying, stopped Department of Education efforts to make schools with poor graduation or employment rates ineligible for use of Student Loan Programs.
This quotation is an excellent of a particular anti-intellectual view of education that is held by a significant number of Americans. For them, the only societal purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs, not to improve the intellectual quality of life for the student and not to make him/her a better citizen by learning our history and developing critical thinking skills. They argue that education will enlighten students and make them better citizens and better developed people, independent of their vocational choices. They do not claim that schools should not prepare students for jobs, but that job preparation is not the major or only purpose of education.
This was quite a radical, feminist statement at the time. But it gives us a good insight into the sexism that then existed where for many the belief was that a young woman would be harmed by a college education.
Bush was the first President to explicitly and publicly explain to Americans the relationship between successful high school and college graduation and unemployment where it did not exist. We were moving ourselves into the information age.
Dewey Dale Archer, Jr. best known as Dr. Dale Archer, is an American medical doctor, board-certified psychiatrist, and radio and television personality. He hosted Taking Charge with Dr. Dale Archer, and the regional TV and Internet based The Dr. Dale Archer Show. Archer has also appeared on most of the top national news shows as a psychiatric expert.
