Book Review: Breakdown of Higher Education

By John M. Ellis

I'll go through thirty to forty books a year, and most all of them are history pieces.  This one was a bit different.  I should note that it's a recent product (in the past couple of months). 

This 210-page book is one that covers the downward spiral of the college system over the past forty-odd years.  It's a well-documented research piece which goes to discuss a losing situation with university degrees today.

I've generally said this for the past decade.....four-year degrees now will cost you in the $50,000 to $100,000 range, and with debt situation in full view.....with the value of the end-product questionable......it's not what existed in the 1970s/1980s.

In simple terms, you have fake college graduates walking around and trying to impress you with a 10th-grade high school mentality.  The sad thing is that their professors demonstrated nothing over the past four years, in exchange for the $80,000. 

The chief failure?  There are dozens of problems but Ellis goes and lays out the problem of analysis and reasoning now lacking in the case of virtually all graduates.  Most programs have become more of a political indoctrination episode....instead of instructing kids how to view a situation, analyze it, or predict the problem or the outcome....you end up believing a product without any true reason. 

If you were a parent with a kid finishing high school in the next five years.....you might want to read the book and find a alternate path for the kid.  It's a book that you can easily finish in three to four days.