Noting that I generally don`t look to assign blame for complex situations...
I blame a lack of Personal Responsibility.
Society at large, for not instilling a sense that knowledge should be valued.
The parents who had kids they weren`t gonna raise right.
The students who didn`t learn the stuff they were need to succeed in college, and or didn`t/don`t think that`s a problem, and/or don`t want to work to rectify that lack (note that in my course they had to or they simply couldn`t do the work so they couldn`t pass).
The college that admits unprepared students and did nothing to bring them up to speed.
The college teachers who let them get to my course without knowing various Fundamentals.
Even as a pretty young kid, I couldn`t have slept nights had I not mastered the info these college students (and they weren`t all Freshmen by a long shot) did not know. I would`ve been worried that I wasn`t gaining the foundation a person needs to function as an adult. I gather that`s not much of a concern for many of today`s kids, though it`s a *primary* concern among the few children that I do know personally IRL.
Unless your parents are rich, you are not entitled to the LUXURY of spending 4 years of your life studying something that is not marketable. They don`t know "stuff", because they didn`t study "stuff".
Not arguing, especially about the "entitled" bit, IMO not even wealthy people`s kids are "entitled"...but I know plenty of people who earned Liberal Arts degrees and were hired despite not having "studied something marketable"; their employers got them the specific training/education they needed, confident that they could basically "learn anything because they`ve been taught how to think".
But I guess that in that case the "How to Think" is what was marketable, and yeah there are a whole lotta utter-BS degree fields these days. It`d be easy to waste a lot of resources while accomplishing nothing of value.
