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Some wise words from Thomas Sowell on why choosing a big-name university may not be all it's cracked up to be.
posted by JT at Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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6 Comments:
Great Article. I was at an Emergence conference this weekend to observe. One of the panelists was a graduate of Princeton Theological seminary. While I know some brilliant people who have come out of that environment, IMHO, her time there was not money well spent!
PTS, as far as I know, doesn't charge tuition. They have an enormous endowment to cover the cost of education. Students pay fees, books, etc.
So, I would venture to say that her time at PTS was money VERY well spent.
It would make a lot of sense that this particular eduaction was free. Others there very well have had money well spent. Based on the theological outcome, I cannot think of a worse place this kind lady could have spent her free time.
the clear omission in the article is any field other than academia. So sure, reed gets people into phd programs, but I am certain that Goldman Sachs is not salivating over Reed graduates instead of Yale alums. There are plenty of benefits to going to smaller liberal arts colleges without great prestige (and, by the way, there are plenty of small liberal arts colleges with great prestige--Bowdoin, Davidson, Williams etc...), but name recognition and prestige still retain a great amount of value for a number of fields.
I graduated in 1990 from Brown University with a BS in Applied Math and then went on to take a year of classes at Rhode Island College. I'm not exaggerating when I say that every one of my professors at Rhode Island College was a better instructor than every one of my professors at Brown. And, unfortunately, for all the cost of an Ivy League education, I did end up being instructed by a few too many graduate students - many of whom could barely speak English! Buyer Beware!
Could the same advice apply to seminaries?
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