This is an ABSOLUTELY ingenious idea!!! And overdue! Four-year degrees are ridiculous for most of life's and work's requirments! The professionals (accounting, medical, and legal fields) might want their educational requirements be a mandatory degree of so many years.

Further, what's up with someone having to have so many credit hours of "gen ed" requirements? What was high school? And, if we need to carry this idea into college, what about the rest of the world that isn't getting the required "gen ed" training they obviously need to make them more "well-rounded?" If the education system was doing it's job, by the time you get into college you should JUST have to study the field of study in which you are aiming to be employed. "Gen ed" is an indirect and ridiculous way of saying we need to employ professors in areas of study that are obviously not needed in today's world! Further, it's a way for colleges/universities to charge us an amazing amount of money for something that we obviously don't care anything about!

I love music, history, politics, and science. And while I wish that the world knew more about ALL those things, I'm not wishing to enforce MY ideals of what should and shouldn't be known, especially when people in yesteryear created way more out of way less education. We won two World Wars with less than 5% of the population being educated beyond high school - don't tell me we "need" all that extra education. Up to the 1990's, no one "needed" a degree for most professions. That all changed, and fast! With way too little "real" justification for the requirements. This all centers around businesses thinking they're going to be getting "better" employees if they're educated! By the way, more educated does not necessarily mean smarter! Being smart and beind educated are two distinctly different things, and shouldn't be confused! I wish people who owned businesses would value ACTUAL (naturally smart person, one who can learn just about anything) benefit versus PERCEIVED (educated person) benefit! If education should teach us anything, it's that being educated isn't "all that!"

Just still,

Thank you for your comment. I could not agree more.

-Matt