You can now take easy courses, from any University - that will Do You, no Good

Many of these have been introduced in the last fifty years, or so. Because students like them (they don't have to study much) and they can easily get loans for them. Only later, when they don't get any jobs from them, but have to pay off their student loans anyway - do they suspect something has gone wrong.

What has gone wrong is a bit complicated, so I will illustrate it with a story.

My sister used to go on canoe trips, with her family, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Later, her husband died, and she had to develop a career for herself, preferably at the University level. She didn't like to study much herself, and she assumed most college students did not either.

So she developed a new course of college studies - and called it Outdoor Education. This was something new in American colleges but had been around in Europe for a long time. Her personal objectives were to make easy for her to teach, and easy for her students to learn. And it included field trips in the summer.

The University she was at, however, required department heads to have a PhD Degree - but this was impossible for her - and she was out of a job.

But somehow, I really don't know how, she ended up at another University. Her courses were a good fit there, because this University was in the mountains, and many of its students went skiing on weekends. And it had many courses that were not academic (such as Sports Medicine).

This was part of a new ethic, where learning was fun and easy!