geeks

[JKSCHW at aol.com]

Don't you think that college educations in the liberal arts at least help teach students how to write more or less comprehensible English prose? --jks

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That educational institutions function primarily as a screening 
device (or an adjunct to human resources departments of firms) and 
only secondarily produce "skills" (if they do so at all) becomes 
strikingly obvious when we look at English Departments, in that, 
here, it is clear that concrete contents of our labor add little or 
nothing to the production of "skills" necessary for future employees 
(this fact is obscured in other disciplines).  However, evaluations 
of students we (along with all other teachers) produce do serve 
capital by minimizing transaction costs of hiring.

Yoshie

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