{"id":602,"date":"2006-06-23T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=602"},"modified":"2006-06-23T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T22:00:10","slug":"the-decline-of-a-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"The decline of a profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here comes another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/taste\/?id=110008556\">article talking about the attrition from the profession and the waste of so-called professional education<\/a>. Yep.  40% attrition within 4 years, 60% within 6 years.  One wonders if we shouldn&#8217;t close the doors of the ignoble preparatory institutions and throw away the key.  We might even open up the profession to those who want to switch careers in midlife.  They&#8217;d bring in a new perspective, unhampered by the brainwashing that happens in the obviously dumbed-down classes where Democrats are far more likely to be the instructors than Republicans. Why, the professors in these so-called &#8220;schools&#8221; don&#8217;t even have to do the type of hard empirical research folks in the <em>real<\/em> disciplines have to.  These burned-out practitioners get away with &#8220;thought pieces&#8221; about policy and even linguistic analysis of their subjects.  Didn&#8217;t they ever learn about experimentation?  Yeah.  Get rid of the law schools, I say.<br \/>\nOh&#8230; you think I meant ed-school matters?<br \/>\n(Hat-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretsoltan.phenominet.com\/\">University Diarist<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here comes another article talking about the attrition from the profession and the waste of so-called professional education. Yep. 40% attrition within 4 years, 60% within 6 years. One wonders if we shouldn&#8217;t close the doors of the ignoble preparatory institutions and throw away the key. We might even open up the profession to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-9I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}