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By Stuart Buck

From Randall Collins, "Credential Inflation and the Future of Universities," in The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University, ed. by Steven Brint (Stanford Univ. Press, 2002), p. 29: The combination of ideologies favoring education -- technological progress plus democratic opportunity -- also operates as a protective ideology for those who make their livings in the educational system. * * * Credential inflation is the dirty secret of modern education; if everyone admitted it publicly -- worse yet, if it became a topic for political discussion -- it would force us to face head-on the issue of class inequality and indeed growing class inequality, in part directly tied to the expansion of credentialing.

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).