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Freshly Minted Ph.ds Typically Teach The Way Their Favorite Professors Taught.

Doctoral Training Is Devoted Almost Entirely To Learning To Do Research, Even Though Most Ph.ds Who Enter Academic Life Spend Far More Time Teaching Than They Do Conducting Experiments Or Writing Books.

There Are No Tests Similar To Sats To Tell Us How Much Undergraduates Know. State Legislators, Who Appropriate Billions Of Dollars Each Year To Higher Education, Are Naturally Interested In Finding Out What They Are Getting For Their Money.

Colleges And Universities, For All The Benefits They Bring, Accomplish Far Less For Their Students Than They Should. Many Students Graduate Without Being Able To Write Well Enough To Satisfy Their Employers... Reason Clearly Or Perform Competently In Analyzing Complex, Non-technical Problems.

The Most Obvious Purpose Of College Education Is To Help Students Acquire Information And Knowledge By Acquainting Them With Facts, Theories, Generalizations, Principles, And The Like. This Purpose Scarcely Requires Justification.