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 -- prompted this comment from GregX, who said American business has generally abandoned its its job of training workers:

And yet Steve the Cynic has brought up the classic reasoning that college isn't just about job preparation, and yet that's all that's emphasized by society:

Emery takes a related view, saying a diploma does show that a student has grown in areas that non-degree-holders have not:

being aired on Midday at noon. The debate is over whether too many students are being pushed into college, considering the unemployment- and debt rates among recent grads.

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Todays Question on MPR– Is the value of college overemphasized? — prompted this comment from GregX, who said American business has generally abandoned its its job of training workers: I don’t know if we have an economic system that is designed to let them do anything else (but go to college). I think that system…

Today's Question: Is the value of college overemphasized?

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