Terry McDonough wrote: > We know why we do 2 [credentialing]... This is forgivable but not > particularly defensible. The real question is why society bothers with it.<
I don't think anyone decided to "bother with" credentialing. At some point, somebody started bragging about going to college or a "better" college and employers decided college degrees were a simply way to separate the good candidates from the bad. That meant that more and more people had to have them. That erased a lot of the differences among job candidates, so new and higher credentials had to be invented or used. It's a self-propelling process. Also, some credentials do have meaning. I'd rather have a surgeon with an MD than one without. -- Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
