Fred W4JLE wrote:

Nonsense John, today's college graduate is more in line with the high school
graduates of the fifties. I hired enough of your "highly educated"
graduates to be more than a casual observer.

They knew every thing there was to know about political correctness, liberal
thinking, and how to bitch if they were not given everything on a platter
the day they hired in.

I assigned an engineer the task of designing a simple serial interface to a
piece of equipment. He told me "we didn't cover that in school". Today A's
are passed out to everyone, in some schools, so as not to make the others
feel bad.

Give me an old time ham or a Navy trained technician, at least they had the
basics. Many of today's graduates are over paid at minimum wage.

I hired many newly degreed engineers in the 1980s. It took 5 to 8 years
of actual work before they became real engineers. Several engineers from
'highly' accredited universities were dismissed because they wouldn't or
couldn't write a simple technical report.

Check the Harvard University graduation list. EVERYBODY is a high honors
graduate!!! More than 90% of Harvard graduates are high honors. I find
that hard to believe.