Is higher education under attack?

I got into a debate on Linkedin with a group of 50+ age people about experience vs education. I valued my Master's degree for the idea of the frontier skills I learned and they value their years of experience minus the degree. Like everything on the internet, I was the minority in the debate and was swarmed by these people who worked into management roles. I deleted the main post after 2 people made personal attacks towards my chain of thought. (Apparently if you delete the parent post, it deletes all the other posts that replied to it)

One of my favorite lecturer (Dr. Neil D. Tyson) mentions that education and government are the only group/organization that can act in the frontier of an industry. His position for this claim is that the private sector relies on investors and investors do not or typically do not invest into risk. However, government and education are paid through tax dollars as compared to private enterprise. (I heavily paraphrased this)

I value experience from people to be a mentor. It is well known that the U.S education model is flawed and is treated as a business model instead of an education model. There are bachelor degrees that literally have no outlets in the job market, cost of education is at an all time high in comparison to income from a position obtained after college, and it is becoming more common to read in job descriptions that X years of experience can substitute for a degree.

So I want to ask you all if higher education is under attack in the U.S. and what outcomes do you see from this change or no change?

Submitted November 17, 2017 at 03:23PM by Proxyminers http://ift.tt/2zSy1Ka