And, yes, Harvard’s GSBA is a “Trade School” as any number of grads have told me. Lord knows you don’t go there for intellectual stimulation – well maybe you would Woody.

And Bush’s business record is hardly a steller ad for the place!

What was rlc’s major?

Guess what the Pres majored in at Yale?

(HINT: it wasn’t accounting)

Of course, I suppose that your continued position to say tha someone who attends an Ivy League style school is better than someone who can’t afford it or doesn’t have the connections, and, thus, confirms your implied position that President Bush is top management material.

Someone who cannot afford expensive schools can get a better value with a for-profit school that specializes in training people for jobs rather than a government school that specializes in protecting teachers and in political correctness.

I know of major corporations that are sending its managers to get MBAs at such private schools. My personal experience has been that the students I hired with a Master’s in Taxation from a major university couldn’t even fill out a tax return correctly. However, students from vocational schools hit the ground running.

The formula used in universities today is so flawed that they don’t need to adjust it–they need to start over.

One other thing about PhD’s, schools get them because of accreditation purposes. Most (I think) PhD’s being hired come from universities in India and other places. Their language skills are horrible, and students can’t understand half of what they say. Also, people trained outside of the U.S. often have no understanding of our tax laws, business practices, etc. to adequately prepare students. Yet, they have the diploma for the college’s accreditation, which only shows a level of training from who knows where–not that they learned anything or can teach.

Could buinessmen with practical experience do a good job and maybe a better job? Absolutely. But, the schools won’t hire them and the businessmen wouldn’t put up with the nonsense. It’s little wonder that schools like The University of Phoenix are growing so fast in light of the costs and poor value of government schools.

Oh, an executive that can double a company’s profits or significantly increase the company’s stock value is worth what he is paid–because he produced. A teacher gets tenured and rests on his laurels, never adding more value to the school or to the students. If most college professors were paid on production, they would need to work at McDonald’s to make up for lost salary.

Let the disgruntled professors walk, and let’s get new professors along with administrators who will leave them alone and let them teach.

Unions encourage mediocrity and laziness and create overpaid losers.

If my thoughts are not clear, let me know.

The argument that you need to pay big to attract “talent” in management somehow njever gets applied to the folks doing the teaching. Guess they are a dime a dozen. After all, anyone can get a PhD, right?