I think it is to some degree. I just completed a four year degree and can say many courses were great, but a lot were useless. 4th year classes that focused on group discussion and major research projects were very good.
But survey courses are literally useless. You pay big bucks to listen to a prof blab on, when you can get the same info from any text book at a fraction of the cost. Some claim the prof makes people think critically about a subject, but really if you need someone else to make you think critically then you should not even be at university
I dislike how many people cannot afford unviersity, but are forced to take a major debt just to get a piece of paper. They ahve no choice, employers value a BA, even when many liberal arts degrees are useless. At the end of the day many people get a liberal arts degree and then go work at some place like Sears (were you will use virtually nothing that you learned at university).
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