Re: Where does responsibility lay? OT!

Posted by MarkB_MI on October 08, 2017 at 12:11:13 from (70.194.14.80):

In Reply to: Where does responsibility lay? OT! posted by oldtanker on October 08, 2017 at 08:19:43:

The issue was with the for-profit schools, which were deliberately misrepresenting their products, namely diplomas and certificates not worth the paper they were printed on. They were often selling their products to gullible, naive and unsophisticated customers, tricking them into borrowing a lot of money to pay for a worthless education. Active-duty servicemen and vets were among their favorite targets.

Now one can say "caveat emptor", but by the same token we don't have to regulate the deceptive practices of used car dealers either. Folks should just know that almost everybody in the business deliberately deceives their customers, right?

As for the not-for-profit schools (mostly public), it is true that they do offer degrees in majors that probably won't earn you a living. But at least those degrees are real, and schools don't try to deliberately misrepresent them as something they are not. There's a world of difference between earning a degree from a state university in, say ballet, and getting a diploma mill certificate in business administration. Sure, you can't earn a living with either one, but the former is what is says it is, and the latter is not.

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• Re: Where does responsibility lay? OT! steamboat 15:59:14 10/08/17 (0)

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