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AMMUNITION IV: WHAT ONE CEO THINKS OF AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR MAJOR

3/24/2013

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Peter Benoliel, former CEO of Quaker Chemical, looks at the educaaiaoan landscape and concludes:

"… slightly over 1.6 million bachelor’s degrees were conferred  … The majority of these degrees (52 percent) were in very specific vocational fields.  … [R]oughly half of  our students have pursued … a rather narrow educational / training experience that informs only a portion of a human’s most fundamental desires and concerns.  …

       " Of the  52 percent receiving degrees in specific vocational pursuits some 348,000   … receive degrees in business  and management.  … I can categorically state … that an undergraduate degree in in business administration at best prepares an individual for entry-level positions.  Such degrees… in no way prepare a student for advancement and leadership."

Excerpted from “Education to what end—vocation or virtue?” in E.K. Busch and J. W. White, eds., Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship p.128

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