Among other things, it seems that if the ultimate goal was the higher education of individuals and the community at large, then there would be a non-traditional way for older adults to obtain their first 60 credits or so.

An engineering degree is an engineering degree, but if a guy comes in at 30 years of age with a full resume behind him, and is well read, he ought to have the option of testing out of the non-major related courses. Full tuition should still be charged so as not to create a loophole for people to try and scam the system, and when I say test out, I don’t mean a typical CLEP test which schools like ASU hardly recognize or allow anyway. Testing out of one course might mean a couple of weeks meeting with professors, and submitting to both written and oral exams so as to ensure that the knowledge of the student is not simply learned by rote.

However it would be done, the point is that a life’s time of productive living should count for something in academia.

I’ll be going back to school next year, and I’m dreading the thought of some of these trumped up classes meant to make me more socially and culturally aware. I could teach the class much more effecitvely than some tenured sinecure whose view of culture and society are hardly reflective of reality.

Rant off. . .